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Exhibit F page 1 of 2 CERTIFICATION REGARDING DEBARMENT, SUSPENSION, AND OTHER RESPONSIBILITY MATTERS PRIMARY COVERED TRANSACTIONS Instructions for Certification 11 By signing and submhting this proposal, the prospective primary participant is providing the certification set out below. 21 The inability of a person to provide the certification required below will not necessarily result in denial of participation in this covered transaction. The prospective participant elan submit an explanation of why it cannot provide the certification set out below. The certification or expianation will be considered in connection with the department or agency's determination whether to enter into this transaction. However, fallure of the prospective primary participant to furnish a certification or an explanation shall . . disqualify such person from participation in this transaction. 3) The certification in this clause is a material representation of fact upon which reliance was placed when the department or agency determined to enter into this transaction. if it is later determined that the prospective primary participant knowingly rendered an erroneous certification, in addition to other remedies available to the Federal Government, the departmem or agency may terminate this transaction for cause of default. 41 The prospective primary participant shall provide immediate written notice to the department or agency to whom this proposal is submitted H at any time the prospective primary participant teams that its certification was erroneous when submitted or has become erroneous by reason of changed circumstances. 5) The terms covered transaction, debarred, suspended. ineligible, lower tier covered transaction, participant, person, primary covered transaction, principal, proposal, and voiuntarily excluded. as used in this clause, have the meanings set out in the Definitions and Coverage sections of the rules impiementing Executive Order 12549. You may contact the person to whom this proposal is submitted for assistance in obtaining a copy of those regulations. B) The prospective primary participant agrees by submitting this proposal that, should the proposed covered transaction be entered into, it shall not knowingly enter into any lower tier covered transaction with a person who is debarred, suspended. declared ineQgible, or voluntarily excluded from participation in this covered transaction, unless authorized by HHS. 71 The prospective primary participant further agrees by submitting this proposal that it will Include the clause titled "Certification Regarding Debarment, Suspension. Ineligibility and Voluntary Exclusion — Lower Tler Covered Transaction," provided by HHS, without modification, in all lower tier covered transactions and in ail solicitations for lower tier covered transactions. 81 A participant in a covered transaction may rely upon a certification of a prospective participant in a lower tier covered transaction that it is not debarred, suspended, ineligible, or voluntarily excluded from the covered transaction, unless it knows that the certification is erroneous. A participant may decide the method and frequency by which it determines the eligibility of its principals. Each participant may, but is not required to, check the Nonprocurement List (of excluded parties). 91 Nothing contained in the foregoing shall be construed to require establishment of a system of records in order to render in good faith the certification required by this clause. The knowledge and information of a participant is not required to exceed that which is normally possessed by a prudent person in the ordinary course of business dealings.