Notice Of Intent To Sole Source By:

Vendor Name:

Contract Amount:

$53,309.00

Notice Publish Date:

August 8, 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:

Clemson University's Advanced Materials Research Laboratory seeks to sole source a dual beam optical monitor from All Scientific. The research requires highly accurate high reflection (HR) and anti-reflection (AR) coatings on the facets of laser diodes. However, due to the temperature varying during the deposition process, the film refractive index changes which leads to HR/AR coating errors. The Intelematics IL570-3 DUAL BEAM OPTICAL MONITOR is the only system that could be integrated with a coating system to provide real-time thin film coating reflectivity measurement with ebeam evaporation process. This function is the key and only method to obtain the required accuracy of HR/AR coatings and can be fitted to the existing Kurt J Lesker Coating System previously purchased. This equipment can only be purchased thru All Scientific as they are the only US distributor for Intelematic products. For these reasons, this is a sole source.

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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