The South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) intends to secure a contract with Level Data, to provide data validation, workflow, and integration services for one year.
The SCDE receives data elements from each South Carolina School District through a statewide Student Information System (SIS). To improve the overall quality of that data, SCDE must validate it. Level Data implements data validation and processing rules that ensure that important and required data are entered correctly at the school district level through the SIS. Level Data accomplishes this through their Data Correction and Validation screening capabilities. Level Data is the only company that is able to provide this type of data integration service in a manner which will not violate existing support agreements with the current statewide SIS provider, PowerSchool. Data is validated in many applications separate from the SIS including, but not limited to Transportation, Assessment, Special Education, Textbook and Food/Nutrition Management. Without a data integration service these data must be typed into both the application system and the PowerSchool system by district personnel. This duplicate entry process is time consuming and prone to data entry errors.
Level Data allows data to be easily collected and processed for quality and accuracy for State and Federal reporting purposes. Integration and storage of data is unique to Level Data for SCDE, which must comply with the SCDE Security and Data Storage policies related to the storage and use of personally identifiable information (PII), protection on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and protections under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Integrating these systems through one validation process decreases the volume of erroneous data that SCDE receives, decreases the data reporting response time for school level performance reports, and saves our school districts resources, including time and money.
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.