The Medical University of South Carolina, Pediatrics, 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 Professional Services Agreement with Brooke Yeager McSwain as a Health Policy Consultant for the SPROUT-CTSA Collaborative Telehealth Research Network. The Health Policy Consultant will provide consultative services for targeted research development to address gaps in the evidence base impacting national telehealth guidelines, regulations, and policies. The consultant will participate in the team developing the economic evaluation telehealth research tool and direct the strategic development of advocacy resources from relevant research findings for dissemination to established healthcare advocacy organizations. This individual must be able to travel for in-person meetings with stakeholders at advocacy, research, and policy organizations.

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 Sarah Wall (walsar@musc.edu) via email prior to the contact deadline: August 27, 2019, 12:00 AM EST. Please address your subject line as follows: Notice of Intent to Sole Source