Notice Of Intent To Sole Source By:

Vendor Name:

Contract Amount:

$79,146.57

Notice Publish Date:

April 17, 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 Medical University of South Carolina, Public Safety and Risk Management, in accordance with South Carolina Procurement Code, Section 11-35-1560 and regulation 19-445.2105, is providing public notice of the Intent to Sole Source a contract to Rave Mobile Safety, for a three (3) year renewal terms. The annual value of the contract is $79,146.57.

Public Safety and Risk Management intends to procure a planned service agreement for the MUSC Alert Emergency Notification System with Rave Mobile Safety for all employees, students, faculty and staff. This planned service agreement includes the on-going maintenance and management of the Rave Mobile Safety System software that is responsible for the alerting all MUSC employees. The existing software being used to monitor and control the system is proprietary to Rave Mobile Safety, and no other software can be created or used as an alternative to monitor and control this system. In addition, it is a federal requirement under the Jeanne Clery Act to have an emergency notification system in place to protect employees when crisis situations occur. These may include but are not limited to: active shooters, hurricanes, suspicious packages, gas leaks and various campus closures. MUSC must protect our patients, students, faculty and staff at all times. The Intent to Sole Source contract is made on the basis that Rave Mobile Safety, is the only vendor that is authorized to sell any parts and maintain the proprietary Rave Mobile Safety software. A break in service would be detrimental to the Enterprise.

PROTESTS (MAY 2019): If you are aggrieved in connection with the intended award of this contract, you may be entitled to protest, but only as provided in §11-35-4210. To protest an intended award of a contract pursuant to §11-35-1560, you shall (i) notify the chief procurement officer in writing of your intent to protest within five (5) business days of the date this intent to award is posted, and (ii) if the appropriate chief procurement officer has been timely notified of your intent to protest, you may submit your actual protest within fifteen days of the date this notice of intent to award is posted. Days are calculated as provided in §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.sc.gov or (b) by post or delivery to: 1201 Main Street, Suite 600, Columbia, SC 29201

Qualified vendors should contact Vertelle G. Seabrook (seabrokv@musc.edu) via email prior to the contact deadline: April 25, 2023; 12:00 AM EST Time. Please address your subject line as follows: Notice of Intent to Sole Source

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

Vertelle G. Seabrook - seabrokv@musc.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:

Information Technology Management Officer

(a) by email to:

protest-itmo@itmo.gov

(b) by post or hand delivery to:

1201 Main Street, Suite 600, Columbia, SC 29201

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