Notice Of Intent To Sole Source By:

Vendor Name:

Contract Amount:

$50,304.00

Notice Publish Date:

June 28, 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:

Planned Service Agreement for a period of one year beginning 1 July 2023 for the Building Maintenance System located at the Joint Armed Forces Reserve Center to provide software updates, annual license renewal, programming support and repairs/replacement of controllers for individual mechanical units.

The Metasys software system is a proprietary software program owned and maintained by Johnson Controls, Inc. Additionally, JCI will not maintain warranties of any controllers or servers that are repaired by third parties.

Contracted services will include comprehensive and operational inspections to include routine checks of equipment for wear and tear, preventative maintenance and calibrations on the equipment controllers, supervisory controllers and severs in the Metasys system, and equipment controllers for VAV boxes.

The Building Maintenance System (BMS) installed to control the mechanical systems at the JAFRC is a proprietary software program developed and maintained by Johnson Controls (JCI). The system requires routine software updates/ patches and annual registration costs, that can only be performed by licensed technicians employed by JCI.

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

Becky Dabney - Becky.Dabney@scmd.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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