Clemson University's  Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department is seeking to make an emergency purchase of New England Biolabs Luna Probe and Enzyme mix reagents to be used for COVID 19 testing in the Clemson University CLIA lab.  These are required reagents for the FDA EUA protocol for saliva COVID testing. We can not replace it and be consistent with FDA rules, and the reagents must be ordered from this supplier only to conform to the "Yale" EUA protocol approved by the FDA. The reagents to be purchased are the Luna Warmstart Enzyme and the Luna Universal Probe One Step Reaction Mix. These reagents cannot be purchased thru any other reseller or distributor. For these reasons, this is a sole source.  The total value of this purchase is $ 257,133.84 USD.  Bidder’s right to protest as listed in Section 11-35-4210 in the South Carolina Consolidated Procurement Code applies to this announcement of an emergency procurement.  Protest to be filed with:

Chief Procurement Officer,
MMO/ITMO 1201 Main Street, Suite 600
Columbia, SC 29201
Facsimile: 803-737-0639
E-mail: protest-mmo@mmo.sc.gov