Notice Of Intent To Sole Source By:

Vendor Name:

Contract Amount:

$600,000.00

Notice Publish Date:

May 9, 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 South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control (DHEC) intends to award a Sole Source contract valued at $600,000 over 2 years to bioLytical Laboratories for INSTI HIV-1/HIV-2 antibody test kits and controls. The tests will be used for screening programs in public health and outreach settings, emergency departments, labor and delivery, laboratories and physician offices. For these outlets, an instant test cleared and approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) waived rapid assay using immunofiltration methodology is required.

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

Rebecca Nichols - NICHOLRJ@DHEC.SC.GOV

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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