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 Certification Regarding the Use of Coercion for Labor and Services document required by Escambia County, Florida, for the Architectural and Engineering Services contract to design a new Animal Welfare Facility. The certification, mandated under Florida Statutes Section 787.06(13), must be executed, renewed, or extended as part of any contract between nongovernmental entities and the County. The RFQ for architectural and engineering firms 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 a.m. The anticipated contract term is 36 months upon execution, with potential renewal options for additional 12-month periods. Proposals must be submitted electronically through the ProcureNow portal and will be evaluated on 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).
The certification requires an officer or authorized representative of the contractor to attest under penalty of perjury that the contractor does not use coercion for labor or services, as defined by Florida law. Coercion is defined to include physical force, unlawful restraint, exploitative debt practices, document confiscation, financial harm threats, fraud, or provision of controlled substances for exploitation purposes. The document does not specify set-aside designations, incumbent vendors, pricing terms, or funding amounts. The certification is effective July 1, 2024, and must be signed and dated by an authorized contractor representative before contract execution.
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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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