Certification_Human_Trafficking.pdf
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- PD 25-26.009
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- Escambia County, Florida
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This is a Human Trafficking Certification document required by Florida Statutes Section 787.06(13) for the Escambia County Animal Welfare Facility architectural and engineering services contract. The certification must be completed and signed by an authorized officer or representative of any nongovernmental contractor entering into, renewing, or extending a contract with Escambia County, Florida. The document requires the contractor to attest under penalty of perjury that the firm does not use coercion for labor or services as defined in Florida law. The certification applies to all contract executions, renewals, and extensions, and became effective July 1, 2024. The RFQ for architectural and engineering services was released on October 27, 2025, with a mandatory pre-solicitation meeting scheduled for November 7, 2025, and proposal responses due by December 2, 2025, at 10:30 am. The contract is anticipated to commence upon execution for an initial 36-month term with potential renewals for additional 12-month periods.
The certification defines coercion broadly to include physical force, unlawful restraint or confinement, exploitative debt practices, document confiscation, threats of financial harm, fraud, and provision of controlled substances for exploitation. All responding firms must complete the affidavit by providing the contractor's business name, authorized representative's signature, printed name, title, and date of execution. No specific pricing, set-asides, incumbent information, or funding sources are detailed in this certification document, as it functions solely as a compliance requirement rather than a procurement specification or financial document. The certification serves as a prerequisite compliance measure for contractor eligibility in the solicitation process.
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Certification Regarding the Use of Coercion for Labor and Services
Pursuant to Section 787.06(13), Florida Statutes, when a contract is executed, renewed, or extended between a nongovernmental entity and a governmental entity, the nongovernmental entity must provide the governmental entity with an affidavit signed by an officer or a representative of the nongovernmental entity under penalty of perjury attesting that the nongovernmental entity does not use coercion for labor or services as defined in this section.
As defined in Section 787.06(2), Florida Statutes, the term “coercion” means:
1. Using or threatening to use physical force against any person;
2. Restraining, isolating, or confining or threatening to restrain, isolate, or confine any person without lawful authority and against her or his will;
3. Using lending or other credit methods to establish a debt by any person when labor or services are pledged as a security for the debt, if the value of the labor or services as reasonably assessed is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt, the length and nature of the labor or services are not respectively limited and defined;
4. Destroying, concealing, removing, confiscating, withholding, or possessing any actual or purported passport, visa, or other immigration document, or any other actual or purported government identification document, of any person;
5. Causing or threatening to cause financial harm to any person;
6. Enticing or luring any person by fraud or deceit; or
7. Providing a controlled substance as outlined in Schedule I or Schedule II of Section
893.03, Florida Statutes, to any person for the purpose of exploitation of that person.
In accordance with Section 787.06, Florida Statutes, the undersigned, as an officer or authorized representative of the Contractor, hereby attests that the Contractor does not use coercion for labor or services as defined above.
CONTRACTOR:
Business Name
By: _______________________________
Signature
Name: ____________________________
Printed
Title: ______________________________
Date: ______________________________
* Effective July 1, 2024
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