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Department of any documentation or certifications, mandatory or otherwise permitted, that the County files shall not constitute a waiver of the Department's rights as the funding agency to verify all information at a later date by audit or investigation. 11. The County should be aware of the following time frames. Upon receipt of an invoice, the Department has twenty (20) days to inspect and approve the goods and services. The Department has twenty (20) days to deliver a request for payment (voucher) to the Department of Financial Services. The twenty (20) days are measured from the latter of the date the invoice is received or the goods or services are received, inspected and approved. If a payment is not available within forty (40) days, a separate interest penalty at a rate as established pursuant to Section 55.03(1), Florida Statutes, will be due and payable, in addition to the invoice amount. Interest penalties of less than one dollar ($1.00) will not be enforced unless the County requests payment. Invoices which have to be returned to the County because of County preparation errors will result in a delay in the payment. The invoice payment requirements do not start until a properly completed invoice is provided to and accepted by the Department. A Vendor Ombudsman has been established within the Department of Financial Services. The duties of this individual include acting as an advocate for entities who may be experiencing problems in obtaining timely payment(s) from a state agency. The Vendor Ombudsman may be contacted at (850) 413-5516 or by calling the Division of Consumer Services at (877) 693-5236. 12. In the event this Agreement is in excess of $25,000.00 (Twenty Five Thousand Dollars and 00/100) and a term for a period of more than one (1) year, the provisions of Section 339.135(6)(a), Florida Statutes, are incorporated as follows: "The Department, during any fiscal year, shall not expend money, incur any liability, or enter into any contract which, by its terms, involves the expenditure of money in excess of the amounts budgeted as available for expenditure during such fiscal year. Any contract, verbal or written, made in violation of this subsection is null and void, and no money may be paid on such contract. The Department shall require a statement from the Comptroller of the Department that funds are available prior to entering into any such contract or other binding commitment of funds. Nothing herein contained shall prevent the making of contracts for periods exceeding one (1) year, but any contract so made shall be executory only for the value of the services to be rendered or agreed to be paid for in succeeding fiscal years; and this.paragraph shall be incorporated verbatim in all contracts of the Department which are for an amount in excess of $25,000.00 and which have a term for a period of more than one (1) year." 13. The administration of the State resources awarded through the Department to the County by this Agreement may be subject to audits and/or monitoring by the Department. The following requirements do not limit the authority of the Department to conduct or arrange for the conduct of additional audits or evaluations of Federal awards or State financial assistance or limit the authority of any state agency inspector general, the State of Florida Auditor General, or any other state official. The County shall comply with all audit and audit reporting requirements as specified below and shall further require its subrecipient to comply with all audit and audit reporting requirements as specified below.