The Medical University of South Carolina, Parking Management, in accordance with South Carolina Procurement Code, Section 11-35-1560 and regulation 19-445.2105, is providing public notice of the Intent to Sole Source a contract to Johnson Controls, to program and install new meters in our garages electrical rooms.

Parking Management intends to procure the service of Johnson Controls to allow the Medical University to get true readings of our meters of energy usage in each of our garages. The HVAC system that’s located here at The Medical University is controlled and monitored by a Johnson Controls Inc., Metasys Facilities Management and Control System. The Charleston branch of Johnson Controls Inc., is the only company authorized to sell parts and maintain the proprietary Johnson Controls Metasys Facilities Management System and software currently being utilized by MUSC. In order to get the system to monitor our energy usage in real time and receive reports this services must be done. Johnson Controls will program and install new meters in the 1^st and 3^rd floor electrical rooms. They will also map the devices and points into the Metasys. A break in service would be detrimental to the Enterprise.

PROTESTS (MAY 2019): If you are aggrieved in connection with the intended award of this contract, you may be entitled to protest, but only as provided in §11-35-4210. To protest an intended award of a contract pursuant to §11-35-1560, you shall (i) notify the chief procurement officer in writing of your intent to protest within five (5) business days of the date this intent to award is posted, and (ii) if the appropriate chief procurement officer has been timely notified of your intent to protest, you may submit your actual protest within fifteen days of the date this notice of intent to award is posted. Days are calculated as provided in §11-35-310(13). Both protests and notices of intent to protest must be in writing and must be received by the appropriate Chief Procurement Officer within the time provided. The grounds of the protest and the relief requested must be set forth with enough particularity to give notice of the issues to be decided.

Any protest or notice of intent to protest must be addressed to the Chief Procurement Officer, Materials Management Office, and submitted in writing (a) by email to: protest-mmo@mmo.sc.gov or (b) by post or delivery to: 1201 Main Street, Suite 600, Columbia, SC 29201

Qualified vendors should contact Vertelle G. Seabrook (seabrokv@musc.edu) or Angie DeVeaux (deveauan@musc.edu) via email prior to the contact deadline: August 22, 2019; 12:00 AM EST Time. Please address your subject line as follows: Notice of Intent to Sole Source