On behalf of the Office of First Steps (OFS), the South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) intends to secure a contract with the South Carolina Infant Mental Health Association (SCIMHA) to provide professional development, support, and implementation of the Attachment and Bio-behavioral Catch-up (ABC) intervention model in collaboration with the national center for ABC. The total potential value of this contract is $204,700.00.

Should you have concerns with this intent to sole source, please send your responses via e-mail to SC Department of Education, Attn.: Elsie Montgomery, Procurement Director, at EMontgomery@ed.sc.gov.

This notice will be posted in the South Carolina Business Opportunities (SCBO) as required by SC Code 11-35-1560.

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-mmo@mmo.sc.gov, or (b) by post or delivery to: 1201 Main Street, Suite 600, Columbia, SC 29201