Fla. Stat. 287.084
Preference to Florida businesses

(1)(a)

When an agency, university, college, school district, or other political subdivision of the state is required to make purchases of personal property through competitive solicitation and the lowest responsible and responsive bid, proposal, or reply is by a vendor whose principal place of business is in a state or political subdivision thereof which grants a preference for the purchase of such personal property to a person whose principal place of business is in such state, then the agency, university, college, school district, or other political subdivision of this state shall award a preference to the lowest responsible and responsive vendor having a principal place of business within this state, which preference is equal to the preference granted by the state or political subdivision thereof in which the lowest responsible and responsive vendor has its principal place of business. In a competitive solicitation in which the lowest bid is submitted by a vendor whose principal place of business is located outside the state and that state does not grant a preference in competitive solicitation to vendors having a principal place of business in that state, the preference to the lowest responsible and responsive vendor having a principal place of business in this state shall be 5 percent.Paragraph (a) does not apply to transportation projects for which federal aid funds are available.As used in this section, the term “other political subdivision of this state” does not include counties or municipalities.

(1)(a)

When an agency, university, college, school district, or other political subdivision of the state is required to make purchases of personal property through competitive solicitation and the lowest responsible and responsive bid, proposal, or reply is by a vendor whose principal place of business is in a state or political subdivision thereof which grants a preference for the purchase of such personal property to a person whose principal place of business is in such state, then the agency, university, college, school district, or other political subdivision of this state shall award a preference to the lowest responsible and responsive vendor having a principal place of business within this state, which preference is equal to the preference granted by the state or political subdivision thereof in which the lowest responsible and responsive vendor has its principal place of business. In a competitive solicitation in which the lowest bid is submitted by a vendor whose principal place of business is located outside the state and that state does not grant a preference in competitive solicitation to vendors having a principal place of business in that state, the preference to the lowest responsible and responsive vendor having a principal place of business in this state shall be 5 percent.

(b)

Paragraph (a) does not apply to transportation projects for which federal aid funds are available.

(c)

As used in this section, the term “other political subdivision of this state” does not include counties or municipalities.

(2)

A vendor whose principal place of business is outside this state must accompany any written bid, proposal, or reply documents with a written opinion of an attorney at law licensed to practice law in that foreign state, as to the preferences, if any or none, granted by the law of that state to its own business entities whose principal places of business are in that foreign state in the letting of any or all public contracts.

(3)(a)

A vendor whose principal place of business is in this state may not be precluded from being an authorized reseller of information technology commodities of a state contractor as long as the vendor demonstrates that it employs an internationally recognized quality management system, such as ISO 9001 or its equivalent, and provides a warranty on the information technology commodities which is, at a minimum, of equal scope and length as that of the contract.This subsection applies to any renewal of any state contract executed on or after July 1, 2012.

(3)(a)

A vendor whose principal place of business is in this state may not be precluded from being an authorized reseller of information technology commodities of a state contractor as long as the vendor demonstrates that it employs an internationally recognized quality management system, such as ISO 9001 or its equivalent, and provides a warranty on the information technology commodities which is, at a minimum, of equal scope and length as that of the contract.

(b)

This subsection applies to any renewal of any state contract executed on or after July 1, 2012.

Source: Section 287.084 — Preference to Florida businesses, https://www.­flsenate.­gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/0287.­084 (accessed Aug. 7, 2025).

287.001
Legislative intent 287.012
Definitions 287.017
Purchasing categories, threshold amounts 287.022
Purchase of insurance 287.025
Prohibition against certain insurance coverage on specified state property or insurable subjects 287.032
Purpose of department 287.042
Powers, duties, and functions 287.055
Acquisition of professional architectural, engineering, landscape architectural, or surveying and mapping services 287.056
Purchases from purchasing agreements and state term contracts 287.057
Procurement of commodities or contractual services 287.058
Contract document 287.059
Private attorney services 287.063
Deferred-payment commodity contracts 287.064
Consolidated financing of deferred-payment purchases 287.074
Prohibited actions by contractor personnel 287.075
Materially interested contractor 287.076
Project Management Professionals training for personnel involved in managing outsourcings and negotiations 287.082
Commodities manufactured, grown, or produced in state given preference 287.083
Purchase of commodities 287.084
Preference to Florida businesses 287.087
Preference to businesses with drug-free workplace programs 287.092
Preference to certain foreign manufacturers 287.093
Minority business enterprises 287.094
Minority business enterprise programs 287.095
Department of Corrections 287.131
Assistance of Department of Financial Services 287.132
Legislative intent with respect to integrity of public contracting and purchasing process 287.133
Public entity crime 287.134
Discrimination 287.135
Prohibition against contracting with scrutinized companies 287.136
Audit of executed contract documents 287.137
Antitrust violations 287.138
Contracting with entities of foreign countries of concern prohibited 287.0571
Business case to outsource 287.0572
Present-value methodology 287.0575
Coordination of contracted services 287.0582
Contracts which require annual appropriation 287.0585
Late payments by contractors to subcontractors and suppliers 287.0591
Information technology 287.0595
Pollution response action contracts 287.0641
Agreement not debt or pledge of faith or credit of state 287.0731
Team for contract negotiations 287.0821
All American and Genuine Florida meat or meat products 287.0822
Beef and pork 287.0823
Preference to commodities grown or produced in Florida 287.0831
Limitation on purchases to replace damaged state agency equipment 287.0834
Motor vehicles 287.0931
Minority business enterprises 287.0935
Surety bond insurers 287.0943
Certification of minority business enterprises 287.0947
Florida Advisory Council on Small and Minority Business Development 287.1346
Provision of commodities produced by forced labor 287.1351
Suspended vendors 287.05701
Prohibition against considering social, political, or ideological interests in government contracting 287.05705
Procurements of road, bridge, and other specified public construction services 287.05805
Contract requirement for use of state funds to purchase or improve real property 287.09431
Statewide and interlocal agreement on certification of business concerns for the status of minority business enterprise 287.09451
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Current through Fall 2025

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