Notice End Date: December 27, 2022

Vendor Name: Speak 2 Me Communications LLC dba Blaze Fire

Contract Amount: $148,425.00

Agency Procurement Manager: Jessica Goff

Agency Procurement Manager Email: JessicaMGoff@djj.sc.gov

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 1-803-896-4699

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:

In accordance with §11-35-1560 (A) of the SC Consolidated Procurement Code, it is the intent of the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) to award without competition a sole source contract in accordance with Regulation 19-445.2105 (B) (5):  A structured academic solution designed with video gaming creating and playing. This program allows students to have access to a secure learning environment task and hands on fashion on live data center resources. Malicious code, software, tools in an online secure lab. This will help young students who are interested programming. 

 

QUESTIONS: Shall be addressed to the email address of the Procurement Officer indicated above.
PROTESTS (MAY 2019) If you are aggrieved in connection with the intended award of this contract, you may be entitled to protest, but only as provided in §11-35-4210. To protest an intended award of a contract pursuant to §11-35-1560, you shall (i) notify the chief procurement officer in writing of your intent to protest within five (5) business days of the date this intent to award is posted, and (ii) if the appropriate chief procurement officer has been timely notified of your intent to protest, you may submit your actual protest within fifteen days of the date this notice of intent to award is posted. Days are calculated as provided in §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, Information Technology
Management Office, and submitted in writing (a) by email to: protest-itmo@itmo.sc.gov or (b) by post or delivery to: 

1201 Main Street, Suite 600, Columbia, SC 29201.

Unless otherwise suspended or canceled, The South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice will enter into a contract for these services on December 16th, 2022 at 5:00pm. Contractor should not perform any work on or incur any costs associated with this notice prior to the receipt of a purchase order. The South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice assumes no liability for any expenses incurred prior to issuance of a purchase order. Contact For Justification For This Procurement: Agency Procurement Manager (Listed Above) Any Notice Of Intent To Protest And Protest Must Be Addressed To: Information Technology Management Officer

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: Other
Contact Name: Jessica Goff
Contact Email Address: JessicaMGoff@djj.sc.gov
Contact Mailing Address: 220 EXECUTIVE CENTER DR Columbia SC 29210