FAR 52.222-18 - Certification Regarding Knowledge of Child Labor for Listed End Products

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Prescribed in 22.1505(a)

Effective Date:1 February 2001
Clause or Provision:Provision
Provision or Clause Number: 52.222-18 - Certification Regarding Knowledge of Child Labor for Listed End Products
Principle Type And/Or Purpose of Contract:
Required:
Applicable:Cost Reimbursement Supply; Fixed Price Supply; Indefinite Delivery; Simplified Acquisition Procedures; Commercial Items; 
Optional:Fixed Price Service; Cost Reimbursement Service; Fixed Price Construction; Cost Reimbursement Construction; Time and Materials/Labor Hour; Leasing of Motor Vehicles; Dismantling, Demolition, or Removal of Improvements; Facilities; Utility Services; 
Subject:
ProcurementType:
Contract Threshold:
Prescription Overview:
Clause Overview:

(a) Definition.

“Forced or indentured child labor” means all work or service—

(1) Exacted from any person under the age of 18 under the menace of any penalty for its nonperformance and for which the worker does not offer himself voluntarily; or

(2) Performed by any person under the age of 18 pursuant to a contract the enforcement of which can be accomplished by process or penalties.

(b) Listed end products. The following end product(s) being acquired under this solicitation is (are) included in the List of Products Requiring Contractor Certification as to Forced or Indentured Child Labor, identified by their country of origin. There is a reasonable basis to believe that listed end products from the listed countries of origin may have been mined, produced, or manufactured by forced or indentured child labor. 

Listed End Product 
Listed Countries of Origin

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_________________

_________________ 

_________________


(c) Certification. The Government will not make award to an offeror unless the offeror, by checking the appropriate block, certifies to either paragraph (c)(1) or paragraph (c)(2) of this provision.

[ ] (1) The offeror will not supply any end product listed in paragraph (b) of this provision that was mined, produced, or manufactured in a corresponding country as listed for that end product.

[ ] (2) The offeror may supply an end product listed in paragraph (b) of this provision that was mined, produced, or manufactured in the corresponding country as listed for that product. The offeror certifies that it has made a good faith effort to determine whether forced or indentured child labor was used to mine, produce, or manufacture such end product. On the basis of those efforts, the offeror certifies that it is not aware of any such use of child labor.

Important Notes/Requirements:

Requires Contractor Certification as to Forced or Indentured Child Labor, except solicitations for commercial items that include the provision at 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications–Commercial Items.

Applicable only to solicitations for supplies that are expected to exceed the micro-purchase threshold (see definition at FAR 2.1) and are for the acquisition of end products (regardless of country of origin) of a type identified by country of origin on the List of Products.

Subcontract Threshold:
Incorporated by Reference:No
Uniform Contract Format:K
Editor:Marshall

Personal notes.

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