Notice End Date: November 1, 2022

Vendor Name: Agilent SEAHORSE XF PRO COMPLETE ANALYZER W/ NORMALIZATION

Contract Amount: $239,999.40

Agency Procurement Manager: SC Young

Agency Procurement Manager Email: scy@clemson.edu

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 864-656-2830

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:

Clemson University's Food and Packaging Science Department intends to sole source and Agilent Seahorse XF Pro Complete Analyzer with Normalization.  It is believed that AGILENT IS THE ONLY COMPANY THAT PRODUCES THE INSTRUMENT FOR SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT OF OXYGEN CONSUMPTION & PROTON EFFLUZ RATE IN LIVE CELLS. THE 2 MAJOR CELLULAR ENERGY YIELDING PATHWAYS, MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION & GLYCOLYSIS CAN BE MEASURED SIMULTANEOUSLY & IN REAL TIME. CHANGES IN THESE 2 ENERGY PATHWAYS AFFECT THE IMMEDIATE EXTRACELLULAR ENVIRONMENT & THE RESULTING CHANGES IN O2 CONCENTRATION AND PH CAN THEN BE MEASURED USING THIS TECHNOLOGY. THERE ARE NO OTHER COMPANIES THAT PRODUCE THIS KIND OF INSTRUMENT, and the instrument cannot be purchased from any other reseller or distributor. For these reasons, this is a sole source.

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: Materials Management Officer