Notice End Date: December 1, 2022

Vendor Name: Clemson University seeks to sole source proposal development support for two funding proposal submissions to National Science Foundation Engineering Research Centers competition.

Contract Amount: $72,000.00

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 seeks to sole source proposal development support for two funding proposal submissions to National Science Foundation Engineering Research Centers competition. The Implementation Group is the only supplier that can manage and provide technical assistance in the proposal development process for two pre-proposals from Clemson U. to the 2023 National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center competition. For each pre-proposal, the pre-proposal must be developed from the predecessor concept paper submitted to the same competition by Clemson for this topic. Assistance should include subject-matter expert input from former program personnel of the NSF. The proposal is necessary for selection to continue to the final step in the competition (invitation to submit a full proposal). Achieving this requires management by a team experienced in the development of successful NSF ERC pre-proposals and with an in-depth understanding of the philosophy and preferences of the NSF ERC program. T.I.G. was previously retained to provide development support for the concept-paper stage of these two proposal efforts. Thus, they are the only vendor with in-depth knowledge of the proposal teams, content, and approach of the two concept papers from which the pre-proposals are developed under the current service. For these reasons, this is a sole source procurement.

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