Notice Of Intent To Sole Source By:

Vendor Name:

Contract Amount:

$4,416,500

Notice Publish Date:

June 13, 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:

This is an addition of funds from $2,000,000 to $4,416,500 which was previously advertised on April 21, 2023.

Youth Villages is the purveyor of the Intercept Model that provides intensive stabilization work with families who have a youth at-risk of an out-of-home placement due to serious family conflict, child welfare involvement, mental health issues or serious behaviors (including substance abuse, defiance, runaway, truancy, etc.). The program also provides reunification support for youth who recently have been placed outside the home. The Intercept program can prevent a child from entering a foster care or residential placement that are often costly and unnecessary. The work is done through intensive in-home parenting skills and mental health services for children (birth to their 18th birthday) and their families to address serious emotional and behavioral problems, including trauma and abuse/neglect. Agency performed an internet search and reviewed documentation from that provider that states The Intercept model is the property of Youth Villages, and Youth Villages is the exclusive purveyor of the Intercept model.

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

Karishma Bolar - karishma.bolar@dss.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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