Notice Of Emergency Procurement By:

Vendor Name:

Contract Amount:

$64,910.00

Notice Publish Date:

January 13, 2023

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:

TTC, in accordance with §11-35-1570 (B) of the SC Consolidated Procurement Code, and in accordance with Regulation 19-445.2110 is announcing the award of an emergency procurement to C.R. Hipp Construction, Inc. The Procurement Officer has deemed this to be an emergency in accordance with Section 11-35-1570 of the South Carolina Procurement Code, due to multiple water heaters that supply potable water to the kitchens in the College's Culinary Institute of Charleston (CIC) area at the Palmer Campus are non-operational. It is a DHEC requirement that potable hot water is available to these kitchens for cleaning items used for cooking and serving food to prevent foodborne illnesses. It is also a requirement to have heated water for hand washing in these areas to meet and maintain cleanliness and hygiene standard guidelines. Classes which have been scheduled in the kitchens cannot be held until hot water has been restored. This notice is not a request for competitive proposals.

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 , (b) by facsimile at 803-737-0639, or (c) by post or delivery to 1201 Main Street, Suite 600, Columbia, SC 29201. Send a copy of any protest filed with the Chief Procurement Officer as instructed above to the Director of Procurement, Trident Technical College, PO Box 118067, Charleston, SC 29423 or fax to: 843 574-6395.

Full Details/Download: https://www.tridenttech.edu/about/departments/proc/ttc_solic.htm

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

Carol Belcher - carol.belcher@tridenttech.edu

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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