Clemson University has a campus-wide Learning Course Management system, Canvas. This is web based software must be equipped with a plugin for Canvas, which we have using since 2012. Any change would require retraining students and faculty in middle required online learning due the COVID19 Crisis. Turnitin is the only manufacturer of a web based software with this technology. Turnitin has no dealers or distributors and they only sell direct, Clemson has also reached out to other suppliers, and none have been able to supply this product or offer a service as complete as this . Therefore, this is a Sole Source Procurement.

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, Construction, and submitted in writing (a) by email to: protest-ose@mmo.state.sc.us , or (b) by post or delivery to: 1201 Main Street, Suite 600, Columbia, SC 29201.