New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › NEW JERSEY SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY › Chapter 32 - SCHOOL FACILITIES PROJECTS: SECTION 15 GRANT PROCEDURES › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 19:32-1.8 - Debarment

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) The district and its consultants or
				  contractors shall not enter into a contract for work on the school facilities
				  project with any person or firm who has been debarred, suspended, or
				  disqualified from State, NJEDA, Authority, or Federal government
				  contracting.
(b) The district shall
				  insert in all contracts with all contracted parties, and all contractors and
				  consultants shall insert into all of their contracts with all subconsultants
				  and subcontractors, a clause stating that the contracted party, its
				  subconsultants or contractors may be debarred, suspended, or disqualified from
				  contracting and/or working on the school facilities project if the contracted
				  party commits any of the acts listed at
				  N.J.A.C.
				  19:38A-4.6 or any applicable regulation
				  issued by the NJEDA or the Authority.
(c) The district's bid specification for any
				  work on the school facilities projects shall require all bidders to submit a
				  sworn statement by the bidder, or an officer or partner of the bidder,
				  indicating whether or not the bidder is, at the time of the bid, included on
				  the State Treasurer's, the NJEDA's, the Authority's, or the Federal
				  government's List of Debarred, Suspended or Disqualified Bidders as a result of
				  action taken by any State or Federal agency, as the case may be. Bid
				  specifications for the school facilities project shall also state that the
				  district shall immediately notify the State, the Authority, and the Office of
				  the Attorney General in writing whenever it appears that a bidder is on the
				  Treasurer's, the NJEDA's, the Authority's, or the Federal government's List.
				  The State and the Authority reserve the right in such circumstances to
				  immediately suspend such bidder from contracting and/or engaging in work on the
				  school facilities project and to take such other action as it deems appropriate
				  pursuant to
				  N.J.A.C.
				  19:38A-4 or any applicable regulation issued
				  by the NJEDA or the Authority.
(d)
				  The district shall have a continuing and affirmative obligation, so long as the
				  grant agreement is in effect to immediately notify the State and the Authority,
				  in writing, whenever it obtains knowledge that any contracted party,
				  subconsultant, or subcontractor is on the Treasurer's, the NJEDA's, the
				  Authority's, or the Federal government's List of Debarred, Suspended or
				  Disqualified Bidders. The State and the Authority reserve the right, in such
				  circumstances, to immediately suspend such contracted party, subconsultant, or
				  subcontractor from contracting and/or engaging in work on the school facilities
				  project and to take such other action as it deems appropriate pursuant to
				  N.J.A.C.
				  19:38A-4 or any applicable regulation issued
				  by the NJEDA or the Authority.