The South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control (DHEC) is seeking qualified vendors to provide one-year service plan coverage for multiple Agilent Technologies Gas Chromatography/Data System/AutoSampler Systems, Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometer/Data System/AutoSampler Systems, associated instrument software and hardware support, and unlimited technical support. Service plan coverage is to include performance maintenance visits by a factory-trained service representative, Agilent certified replacement parts as needed for corrective maintenance and repair, and hardware and software telephone support, while maintaining the standard level of performance as stated in the operational manual provided with the original equipment. The total estimated dollar amount of the purchase is $114,495.48.

Qualified vendors should contact Whitney Carswell at carswewp@dhec.sc.gov by Midnight ET, May 3, 2021 for additional information.

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.