Attachment O, Principal Place of Business Letter.pdf
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- Natural Gas Supply ITB V2
- Solicitation number
- ITB-14666
- Issued by
- Florida
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This is an Attachment O form issued by the Florida Department of Management Services for the Natural Gas Supply ITB No. 25-83101601-ITB-V2, establishing requirements for bidders to declare their principal place of business location. The document serves as a mandatory submission component that requires all bidders to indicate whether their principal place of business is located within Florida or outside the state. For bidders with a Florida principal place of business, the form requires completion of basic company information and authorization signatures. The form does not specify response dates, site visits, or bidder conferences, as it functions solely as a compliance document within the larger ITB submission package.
For bidders whose principal place of business is located outside of Florida, the form mandates a critical additional requirement: submission of a legal opinion from an attorney licensed to practice law in the bidder's home state. This legal opinion must address whether the bidder's home state grants any preferential treatment to in-state business entities in public contracting. If preferences exist, the attorney must describe each applicable preference in detail. The form explicitly warns that failure to complete this section for out-of-state bidders will render the bid non-responsive. This requirement derives from Florida Statutes Section 287.084(2) and ensures transparency regarding reciprocal state preferences that may affect competitive bidding fairness.
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Natural Gas Supply ITB No. 25-83101601-ITB-V2 Page 1 of 2
Attachment O Principal Place of Business Letter
[Date]
[Contact Name] [Company Name] [Company Address] [City, State, Zip]
The Bidder shall indicate where its principal place of business is located and provide a completed copy of this Attachment O, Principal Place of Business Letter to the Department in response to the solicitation.
Principal place of business (please select only one)
☐ The Bidder has its principal place of business within Florida. Complete the following fields if this box is selected:
Printed Bidder (Vendor) Name: ___________________________
Authorized Representative Signature: ___________________________
Authorized Representative Printed Name: ________________________
Date: _____________________________
***THE BELOW SECTION APPLIES FOR A BIDDER WHOSE PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS IS
OUTSIDE OF FLORIDA (“Out-of-State”) ONLY***
****If the section below is not completed and the Bidder has selected that its company has a principal place of business outside of Florida, the Bidder will be deemed non-responsive.
☐ The Bidder has its principal place of business outside of Florida. Complete the fields below if this box is selected:
If Bidder’s principal place of business is outside of the State of Florida, the following must be completed by an attorney licensed to practice law in the state in which the company’s principal place of business is located.
NOTICE: Section 287.084(2), Florida Statutes, provides that “a vendor whose principal place of business is outside this state must accompany any written bid, proposal, or reply documents with a written opinion of an attorney at law licensed to practice law in that foreign state, as to the preferences, if any or none, granted by the law of that state to its own business entities whose principal places of business are in that foreign state in the letting of any or all public contracts.”
Natural Gas Supply ITB No. 25-83101601-ITB-V2 Page 2 of 2
LEGAL OPINION ABOUT STATE PREFERENCES
This section shall be completed by an Attorney at law licensed to practice in the state in which the company’s principal place of business is located if outside of Florida. The Bidder must provide the requisite details to the attorney completing this form.
I, [Insert Name], certify I am an attorney licensed to practice law in [Insert State], the state in which the above listed company (Bidder) has its principal place of business.
(Please Select One)
☐ The Bidder’s principal place of business is in the State of _________________ and it is my opinion that the laws of that state do not grant a preference to business entities whose principal places of business are in that state in the letting of any or all public contracts.
☐ The Bidder’s principal place of business is in the State of ______________ and it is my opinion that the laws of that state grant the following preference(s) to business entities whose principal places of business are in that state in the letting of any or all public contracts: [Please describe all applicable preference(s) only as it relates to preference(s) granted to business entities whose principal place of business is in the state listed herein]
[E.g., State of X offers 5% preference to business entities whose principal place of business is in state of X:]
Printed Bidder (Vendor) name: ______________________________
Authorized Bidder signature: ______________________
Authorized Representative Printed Name: ________________________
Date: ___________________
Printed Attorney name: _______________________________
Authorized signature of attorney: _____________________
Email address of attorney: ____________________________
Telephone number of attorney: ________________________
Date: _________________
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