The South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) intends to purchase a license to report Lexile® and Quantile® measures for the 2022-23 school year. The license will be purchased from MetaMetrics, Inc., of Durham, North Carolina. The value of the agreement will be $280,000. The data files for statewide assessments include student Lexile and Quantiles scores. Under the Consolidated State Plan as approved on May 3, 2018, these scores are included in accountability calculations.

This notice will be posted in the South Carolina Business Opportunities (SCBO) for two weeks as required by SC Code 11-35-1560 to determine the availability of vendors able to provide the requested supplies and services. Please contact the buyer listed here by the date and time listed with this advertisement with any input you have.

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, Materials 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