Notice Of Emergency Procurement By:

Vendor Name:

Contract Amount:

75,000.00

Notice Publish Date:

January 9, 2024

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:

In compliance with Section 11-35-1570(B) of the South Carolina Consolidated Procurement Code, the Department of Social Services is announcing an award of an emergency procurement to Blue Skies Counseling and Family Services to provide the critical functions of foster home licensing, recruitment, training and supervision of foster parents. These services will be delivered in a less-restrictive and therapeutic environment while still creating a family-like setting. Currently, contracts resulting from a solicitation have yet to be awarded. This emergency procurement is legally necessary to avoid gaps in services.

Bidder's Right to Protest per Section 11-35-4210 of the SC Consolidated Procurement Code is applied to this announcement of an emergency procurement.

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

Valerie Williams - valerie.williams@dss.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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