Notice Of Intent To Sole Source By:

Vendor Name:

Contract Amount:

$151,505.00

Notice Publish Date:

November 4, 2022

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:

This is a sole source purchase to equip a new lab at Clemson University with a photosynthesis measurement system along with associated peripherals for measuring light, stomatal function, tissue gas exchange, and leaf area. The LICOR company (Lincoln, NE) has long been the industry standard for measuring plant photosynthesis, since their development of a portable 'open chamber' technique in the 1980s. All plant physiology labs across the US use LICOR machines--there is no other U.S. supplier of a open chamber gas exchange system. The latest model is the LI-6800 system, developed about 5 years ago as a replacement for the LI-6400. The LI-6800F system includes a pulse modulated fluorometer in the leaf chamber, which is used to assay properties of light harvesting, including quantum efficiency and stress response. This will be the primary tool in the lab for measuring leaf function, including both the light and dark reactions of photosynthesis, leaf transpiration, and respiration. There is no other piece of equipment on the market that performs these functions. 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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