The South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) intends to secure hosting and a maintenance agreement for the Office of Instructional Materials with Follett Software Company, to provide maintenance, hosting, and support of existing customizations for a proprietary software for no more than one year.

Follett is the sole source of the Destiny suite of products, all of which are supported by Follett's advanced proprietary technology. Each school with state-owned Instructional Materials uses the system for tracking, circulation, orders, returns, and the required annual inventory. Follett is the only vendor authorized host the system and to perform necessary maintenance and support needed for the inventory system currently in use. Continued maintenance and support is of paramount consideration for this particular procurement.
 

Should you have concerns with this intent, please send your responses via e-mail to SC Department of Education, Attn.: Elsie Montgomery, Procurement Director, at EMontgomery@ed.sc.gov for this Intent to Sole Source no later than 5:00 PM on February 14, 2019.

This notice will be posted in the South Carolina Business Opportunities (SCBO) for five business days as required by SC Code 11-35-1560.

PROTESTS:

If you are aggrieved in connection with the intended award or award of the contract, you may be entitled to protest, but only as provided in Section 11-35-4210. To protest an award, you must (i) submit notice of your intent to protest within five (5) business days of the date this notice is posted, and (ii) submit your actual protest within fifteen days of the date this notice is posted. Days are calculated as provided in Section 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, Information Technology Management Office, and submitted in writing

(a) by email to: protest-itmo@itmo.sc.gov, or

(b) by post or delivery to: 1201 Main Street, Suite 600, Columbia, SC 29201.