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Can you explain how you meet part B of the VENDOR rules?
A VENDOR is a legitimate business source for COTS items that satisfies all the following criteria:
A.has a Federal Tax Identification number. In cases where the VENDOR is outside of the United States, they must possess an equivalent form of registration or license with the government of their home nation that establishes and validates their status as a legitimate business licensed to operate within that country.
B.is not a “wholly owned subsidiary” of a FIRST Robotics Competition team or collection of teams. While there may be some individuals affiliated with both a team and the VENDOR, the business and activities of the team and VENDOR must be completely separable.
C.must be able to ship any general (i.e., non-FIRST unique) product within five business days of receiving a valid purchase request. It is recognized that certain unusual circumstances (such as 1,000 FIRST teams all ordering the same part at once from the same VENDOR) may cause atypical delays in shipping due to backorders for even the largest VENDORS. Such delays due to higher-than-normal order rates are excused.
D.should maintain sufficient stock or production capability to fill teams’ orders within a reasonable period during the season (less than 1 week). (Note that this criterion may not apply to custom-built items from a source that is both a VENDOR and a fabricator. For example, a VENDOR may sell flexible belting that the team wishes to procure to use as treads on their drive system. The VENDOR cuts the belting to a custom length from standard shelf stock that is typically available, welds it into a loop to make a tread, and ships it to a team. The fabrication of the tread takes the VENDOR two weeks. This would be considered a FABRICATED ITEM, and the two-week ship time is acceptable.) Alternately, the team may decide to fabricate the treads themselves. To satisfy this criterion, the VENDOR would just have to ship a length of belting from shelf stock (i.e. a COTS item) to the team within five business days and leave the welding of the cuts to the team.
E.makes their products available to all FIRST Robotics Competition teams. A VENDOR must not limit supply or make a product available to just a limited number of FIRST Robotics Competition teams.
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If they are not a VENDOR, this product may still be exempt from having to be COTS, based on an interpretation of R14 - F
(I say “an interpretation” because it appears that that R14 is formatted incorrectly such that all items apply to the main statement, when last year there was a sub list which contained what is now R14 - F specifically under R14 - D. The blue box and other parts of the manual also make reference to this missing sublist multiple times. For some reason the blue box also precludes R14 F - L as not valid exemptions if the item was used on last year’s robot… I sense a team update…)
This thread has already been posted once.
And the OP’s reply to someone else asking the same vendor question clearly states that they don’t pass part B of the vendor rules, especially since they clearly state “this is for sale by Team 7400”:
@mayamac-seid Please feel free to correct me if I missed anything, but based on your own reply (quoted above) it is very clear you don’t pass part B of the vendor rules.
(Also it isn’t cool to re-post the exact same thread.)
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