Notice Of Intent To Sole Source By:

Vendor Name:

Contract Amount:

$75,300.00

Notice Publish Date:

January 18, 2023

Agency Procurement Manager:

Email:

Telephone:

The Agency hereby provides notice that it intends to enter into a sole source contract per S.C. Code Ann. §11-35-1560 with Vendor for the following supplies, services, information technology, or construction:

The South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control (DHEC) is seeking qualified vendors to provide two (2) Turbo V Ionization Sources that are used to operate two SCIEX systems. The systems are a SCIEX X500R LC-QTOF-MS system and a SCIEX 5500 LC-MS/MS system. The Turbo V Ionization Sources provided must be compatible with these two current systems. Vendor must be able to provide the Turbo V Ionization Sources specific to each SCIEX instrument, as usage of these parts are required to maintain instrument operation and vendor service contracts; while maintaining the standard level of performance as stated in the operational manual provided with the original equipment. The total estimated dollar amount of the service contract purchases is $75,300.00.

Qualified vendors should contact Whitney Carswell at carswewp@dhec.sc.gov by Midnight ET, January 25, 2023 for additional information.

PROTESTS:

If you are aggrieved in connection with the intended award or award of the contract, you may be entitled to protest, but only as provided in Section 11-35-4210. To protest an award, you must (i) submit notice of your intent to protest within five (5) business days of the date this notice is posted, and (ii) submit your actual protest within fifteen days of the date this notice is posted. Days are calculated as provided in Section 11-35-310(13). Both protests and notices of intent to protest must be in writing and must be received by the appropriate Chief Procurement Officer within the time provided. The grounds of the protest and the relief requested must be set forth with enough particularity to give notice of the issues to be decided. Any protest or notice of intent to protest must be addressed to the Chief Procurement Officer, Materials Management Office, and submitted in writing (a) by email to: protest-mmo@mmo.state.sc.us or (b) by post or delivery to: 1201 Main Street, Suite 600, Columbia, SC 29201.

Agency's justification for a sole source procurement may be viewed or immediately obtained at:

Whitney Carswell - carswewp@dhec.sc.gov

PROTESTS:
Any actual or prospective bidder, offeror, contractor, or subcontractor aggrieved in connection with the intended award or award of this sole source contract, shall notify the appropriate chief Procurement officer in writing of its intent to protest within five (5) business days of the date this notice is posted. Any actual or prospective bidder, offeror, contractor, or subcontractor who is aggrieved in connection with the intended award or award of this sole source contract and has timely notified the appropriate chief procurement officer of its intent to protest, may protest to the appropriate chief procurement officer in the manner set forth below within fifteen days of the date this notice is posted; except that a matter that could have been raised as a protest of the solicitation may not be raised as a protest of the award or intended award of a contract.
A protest must be in writing, filed with the appropriate chief procurement officer, and set forth the grounds of the protest and the relief requested with enough particularity to give notice of the issues to be decided. The protest must be received by the appropriate chief procurement officer within the time provided above. Days are calculated as provided in S.C. Code Ann. §11-35-310(13).

Any notice of intent to protest and protest must be addressed to the chief procurement officer:

Materials Management Officer

(a) by email to:

Protest-MMO@mmo.sc.gov

(b) by post or hand delivery to:

1201 Main Street, Suite 600, Columbia, SC 29201

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