Notice Of Intent To Sole Source By:

Vendor Name:

Contract Amount:

$391,026.32

Notice Publish Date:

November 16, 2022

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:

Clemson requires an academic partner in Genoa that can provide both Architecture and Landscape Architecture students architecture programming specifically crafted to the CU syllabus, and taught in English by faculty/practitioners in Genoa. The project/coursework must flow from one semester to the next and this cannot be replicated or picked up by another supplier. The partner must have sufficient studio space to accommodate up to 20 Clemson students with individual desks; dedicated classroom space; up-to-date printers, plotters and laser cutters; and collaboration space. The provider must offer 24/7 student support. The provider must deliver one or two long (5 days minimum) field studies travel plus at least bi-weekly day trips for the Field Studies course. The provider must have student accommodations for a minimum of 20 students. Accommodations are to include normal furnishings in the bedroom; bathrooms; washer and dryers. An entire private suite must be included in the same building as all other facilities for the professor-in-residence, a CU faculty member appointed by the School of Architecture. Food and meals must be provided for the time students are living on-site in the accommodations and students must have access to use the kitchen. CAF will support Clemson administratively for work and administrative contracts required at the Genoa, Italy, facility.

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

Rod Stanford - stanfo2@clemson.edu

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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