Notice End Date: October 8, 2022

Vendor Name: Cyberbit, Inc.

Contract Amount: $5,002,500 for 5 yr use

Agency Procurement Manager: Jessica Favor

Agency Procurement Manager Email: jfavor@citadel.edu

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 843-953-6873

The Agency hereby provides notice that it intends to enter into a sole source contract per S.C. Code Ann. §11-35-1560 with Vendor for the following supplies, services, information technology, or construction:

Cyberbit Cloud Platform for cybersecurity learning and CBE programs including: Cyber Range Live Fire Team Exercises; Cyber Labs Individual Skill Development; Hardware equipment for CBE program to run software; Automated student assessments, reporting dashboards; Management platform; Admin and student accounts; Hands-on cyber security courses aligned with Citadel’s curriculum The agreement for use of hardware/equipment and platform as a sole source is for a five year period.  Additional information can be accessed at this link: https://go.citadel.edu/procurement/wp-content/uploads/sites/74/Cyberbit.pdf

Agency's justification for a sole source procurement may be viewed or immediately obtained at: Agency Procurement Manager (Listed Above)

PROTESTS:
Any actual or prospective bidder, offeror, contractor, or subcontractor aggrieved in connection with the intended award or award of this sole source contract, shall notify the appropriate chief Procurement officer in writing of its intent to protest within five (5) business days of the date this notice is posted. Any actual or prospective bidder, offeror, contractor, or subcontractor who is aggrieved in connection with the intended award or award of this sole source contract and has timely notified the appropriate chief procurement officer of its intent to protest, may protest to the appropriate chief procurement officer in the manner set forth below within fifteen days of the date this notice is posted; except that a matter that could have been raised as a protest of the solicitation may not be raised as a protest of the award or intended award of a contract.
A protest must be in writing, filed with the appropriate chief procurement officer, and set forth the grounds of the protest and the relief requested with enough particularity to give notice of the issues to be decided. The protest must be received by the appropriate chief procurement officer within the time provided above. Days are calculated as provided in S.C. Code Ann. § 11-35-310(13).

Any Notice Of Intent To Protest And Protest Must Be Addressed To: Information Technology Management Officer