Notice Of Emergency Procurement By:

Vendor Name:

Contract Amount:

$78,460.92

Notice Publish Date:

October 26, 2022

Agency Procurement Manager:

Email:

Telephone:

The Agency hereby provides notice that it entered into an emergency contract per S.C. Code Ann. §11-35-1570 with Vendor for the following supplies, services, information technology, or construction:

The South Carolina Department of Administration, in accordance with South Carolina Procurement Code, Section 11-35-1570 and regulation 19-445.2110, is providing public notice of the award of an emergency contract to Blanchard Machinery. The total potential value the contract is approximately $78,460.92.

This procurement is for two (2) 72-inch cooling tower blades and the associated duct cylinder assembly that has failed, resulting in the cooling tower being unable to provide cool enough water with high outdoor temperatures in the upper 80s and low 90s to feed the chillers without shutting them down. This is the main testing facility for infection diseases for DHEC. This facility operates 24/7 and without sufficient cooling, would have to shut down and route all testing to independent laboratories. The inability to complete testing on site creates a threat to public health as DHEC would not be able to report testing results in compliance with the Centers for Disease Control guidelines. Additionally, routing all testing to independent labs would risk specimen contamination.

Please see Section 11-35-4210: Right to Protest of the South Carolina Code of Laws for information relating to protest rights.

Agency's justification for this emergency procurement may be viewed or obtained at:

Drew Spires - Drew.Spires@admin.sc.gov

PROTESTS:
Any actual or prospective bidder, offeror, contractor, or subcontractor aggrieved in connection with the intended award or award of this emergency 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 emergency 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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