VENDOR INFORMATION VERIFICATION

1. Sales Tax Permit Verification
   1. DCS – http://www.dcs.state.ok.us/Permits.nsf
   2. OK Tax Commission –  http://www.oktax.onenet.net/permitlookup/permitlookup.php
       
2. Business Registration Verification with the Secretary of State – https://www.sooneraccess.state.ok.us
    
3. Vendors Debarred, Banned or Suspended.

The US Government has identified organizations and people as threats to the United States. It is unlawful for a person in the United States or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to knowingly provide "material support or resources" to a designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO). Additionally, the Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") of the US Department of the Treasury administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on US foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign countries, terrorists, international narcotics traffickers, and those engaged in activities related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. OFAC acts under Presidential wartime and national emergency powers, as well as authority granted by specific legislation, to impose controls on transactions and freeze foreign assets under US jurisdiction. Many of the sanctions are based on United Nations and other international mandates, are multilateral in scope, and involve close cooperation with allied governments.

What does this mean? State agencies are prohibited from doing business with the organizations or people listed in the websites below:

• Department of State - Foreign Terrorist Organizations: http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/37191.htm
• Department of State – Comprehensive List of Terrorists and Groups Identified Under Executive Order 13224: http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/2001/6531.htm
• Department of Treasury – Specially Designated Nationals list: http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/sdn/