The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is seeking qualified vendors to provide a one-year software support contract for Screening Center and eReports software modules of existing PerkinElmer Specimen Gate Screening Center and Specimen Gate eReports. Support is to include support services to correct an error which is attributed to PerkinElmer or which affects use of the System; System recovery services; Software updates to features previously implemented; Software configuration changes; and Integration of additional instruments.  Specimen Gate is used in the DHEC Public Health Laboratory.  The estimated cost of the support is $100,000.

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