Notice End Date: March 8, 2023

Vendor Name: Parchment Inc.

Contract Amount: $326,152.00

Agency Procurement Manager: Elsie Montgomery

Agency Procurement Manager Email: emontgomery@ed.sc.gov

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: EMontgomery@ed.sc.gov

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:

The South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) intends to secure a contract with Parchment, Inc. for e-Transcript subscription services and HS/PowerSchool Integration services for one year. Parchment provides for an e-Transcript Exchange which allows students to request, send, and monitor the status of high school transcripts for admission to higher educational institutions and to the SC Commission on Higher Education for application for state scholarships. No other company offers both the capability to securely transmit digital high school transcripts and also offers an online site (exchange site) that allows students to request and manage their digital transcript requests. Parchment is the only digital transcript service that is fully integrated with PowerSchool, the official Student Information System (SIS) of record used by all SC school districts.

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