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 Escambia County, Florida, for the Architectural and Engineering Services contract to design and construct a new Animal Welfare Facility. Under Florida Statute Section 787.06(13), all nongovernmental entities entering into, renewing, or extending contracts with governmental entities must provide a signed affidavit certifying compliance with labor coercion prohibitions. The certification requires an authorized officer or representative of the contractor to attest under penalty of perjury that the firm does not engage in coercive labor practices. The document outlines seven specific forms of prohibited coercion, including physical force, unlawful restraint or confinement, exploitative debt arrangements, document confiscation, financial harm threats, fraud or deception, and controlled substance provision for exploitation purposes. The affidavit must be completed with the contractor's business name, authorized signature, printed name and title of the signatory, and submission date, and became effective July 1, 2024.
This certification requirement applies to the Escambia County RFQ for architectural and engineering services for the 50,000-square-foot Animal Welfare Facility, with proposals due December 2, 2025, at 10:30 am and a mandatory pre-solicitation meeting on November 7, 2025. The contract term extends for 36 months upon execution with potential 12-month renewal options. All responding firms must submit this completed certification along with their qualifications, which will be evaluated across six criteria: Respondent's Statement of Qualifications (20 points), Experience and Performance on Past Projects (25 points), Litigation and Claims (20 points), Current Workload (10 points), Project Specific Criteria (20 points), and Respondent's Office Location (5 points). No specific budget range, set-asides for disadvantaged enterprises, or incumbent vendors are identified in the documentation.
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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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