Notice Of Intent To Sole Source By:

Vendor Name:

Contract Amount:

$135,682.00

Notice Publish Date:

March 29, 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 Tran Lab will use this laser for characterizing photoluminescent materials in quantum computing, and spintronics applications. Characterizing these materials requires a spectral bandwidth with single-mode fiber output and picosecond laser pulses. The laser will be coupled to a fluorescence spectrometer. The Sanabria lab will use this laser for building a multicolor single-molecule Forster Resonance energy transfer and nanoscopy instrument as the lab seeks to understand the structure and dynamics of biomolecular complexes. For this, we need a broad bandwidth, and a high repetition rate of 78 MHz capable of tuning it up to 150 kHz for a nanosecond to millisecond time-resolved measurements. No other equipment available on the market today can offer these capabilities. Also, this particular laser is the only laser available on the market that will plug and play with the customized confocal microscope already built by Dr. Sanabria and with the Fluoluorescence spectrometer. Other labs will use this laser for cell-type profiling using multiplexing probes, which require again the single model tunability of a broad bandwidth that the SuperK offers that satisfies the requirements of all 3 labs. The SuperK Fianium FIU-15 by NKT photonics has a fiber output coupler, offers the bandwidth needed as well as the needed repetition rates and is portable, which is required for integrating with the described equipment. This equipment is only available for purchase through NKT Photonics and is not available from any other reseller or distributor. For these reasons, this is a sole source procurement.

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

SC Young - scy@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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