Notice End Date: December 14, 2022

Vendor Name: Intent to Sole Source- ArchiveSocial

Contract Amount: $30,000

Agency Procurement Manager: Myrtle K. deWerdt

Agency Procurement Manager Email: dewerdt.myrtle@doc.sc.gov

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 803-896-8582

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:

This is a (1) year Sole source with (4) automatically renewable (1) year Terms for a potential of (5) Years

The South Carolina Department of Corrections intends to Sole Source ArchiveSocial to provide a ‘social media archiving, monitoring, analytics, and website capture’ software service platform with a predominant focus on the public sector, protecting over 3,500 government entities, law enforcement agencies, and educational organizations in 49 US states, with customers in 7 countries. In 2021, ArchiveSocial was recognized as a GovTech 100 company by Government Technology Magazine for the 6th consecutive year. Based on market research and peer evidence, no other social media archiving vendor provides the level of comprehensive, detailed, and authentic capture of social media as ArchiveSocial.

Should you have concerns with this intent to award ArchiveSocial in that you can perform and supply all product and services please send your responses via e-mail to SC Department of Corrections.

Agency's justification for a sole source procurement may be viewed or immediately obtained at: Web Address Where Item Is Posted
URL To View Justification: http://webprod.cio.sc.gov/SCSolicitationWeb/solicitationAttachment.do?solicitnumber=5400024546

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