In accordance with the Sole Source section 11-35-1560 listed in the South Carolina Consolidated Procurement, South Carolina State University (SCSU) is providing public notice of the intent to procure (TouchNet Information Systems) as a sole source procurement for a five year period for the hosting and maintenance for the University owned perpetual license of Gateway Credit Card and ACH Engines, and addition of Application Subscription Program (ASP) for the Payment Client (including registrar transcript request fees and graduation application fees payment points), Bill+Payment Account Center, eBill, eDeposits, and eRefunds software.

SC State University requires continued hosting and maintenance of the perpetual license and a payment processing service that provides a variety of services to appropriately receive and record payments from student, parents and other constituencies. These payment services must be done in a safe, Payment Card Industry – Data Security Standards manner. Multiple areas rely on the accuracy and security of the payment processing system.

Pursuant to Section 11-35-1560(A) of the S.C. Code of Laws, the following notice is hereby provided:

Any actual or prospective bidder, offeror, contractor, or sub-contractor who is aggrieved in connection with this intended award may be entitled to protest, but only as provided in Section 11-35-4210 of the S.C. Code of Laws.  To protest an award, you must (i) submit notice of your intent to protest with five (5) business days of the date the notice is posted, and (ii) submit your actual protest with fifteen (15) days of the date the award notice is posted. Days are calculated as provided in Section 11-35-310(13) of the S.C. Code of Laws. 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 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