Notice Of Intent To Sole Source By:

Vendor Name:

Contract Amount:

$80,000.00

Notice Publish Date:

March 7, 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:

As part of ongoing research of using composite materials in varying applications, the purchase of the IR Heater Bank from Krauss Maffei is needed to heat varying types of composite materials in conjunction with the use of an existing Krauss Maffei Pick-up Table and an IR Oven equipment also supplied by Krauss Maffei and currently in use in the laboratory. The pre-existing equipment which the IR Heater Bank will be connected to is exclusively manufactured by Krauss Maffei. Because of this, any subsequent equipment purchased to expand the operations needed for research activities must also be supplied/procured from Krauss Maffei and thus requires the IR Heater Bank be a sole source procurement. This equipment cannot be purchased from any other reseller or distributor. 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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