Notice Of Intent To Sole Source By:

Vendor Name:

Contract Amount:

$400,000

Notice Publish Date:

April 3, 2023

Procurement/Project Name:

Procurement/Project#:

P28-9805-PD

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:

South Carolina Parks, Recreation and Tourism (SCPRT) is seeking a qualified architect to provide complete architectural/engineering services for the design of the Blacksburg Welcome Center located in Cherokee, SC. SCPRT is currently in the design phase of the Fair Play Welcome Center. The design of the Fair Play Welcome Center has been laid out to meet the Welcome Center “Parkitecture” Design. Therefore, SCPRT intends to site adapt the Fair Play Welcome Center design for the Blacksburg Welcome Center to impart aesthetic/programmatic consistency to those visiting the upstate. Due to liability issues, the Fair Play Welcome Center architect is not willing to sell its license for use elsewhere absent their involvement in the project. SCPRT also believes that no other architect would accept liability of using another architect’s design without significant review and modification. For this reason, SCPRT believes that acquisition of the architect to site adapt the Fair Play Welcome Center design is a sole source and intends to proceed as such.
Qualified architects who disagree that the selection of the architect to site adapt an existing design and who are willing to accept full responsibility for doing so should contact Kevin Kibler at 803-734-3752 for additional information.
Responses are to be sent to: SCPRT, Mr. Kevin Kibler – Special Projects Manager 1205 Pendleton Street, Columbia, SC 29201

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

Kevin Kibler - kkibler@scprt.com

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:

State Engineer

(a) by email to:

Protest-OSE@mmo.sc.gov

(b) by post or hand delivery to:

1201 Main Street, Suite 600, Columbia, SC 29201

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