Notice End Date: March 21, 2023

Vendor Name: Interfolio Inc. REVISED END DATE AND PRICE

Contract Amount: $267,000.00 Total

Agency Procurement Manager: Jeremy McDaniel

Agency Procurement Manager Email: mcdanieljd@winthrop.edu

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: (803) 323-2143

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:

Winthrop University intends to continue using Interfolio software. This software has become the standard

across the field of higher education and is required to attract high-quality applicants. The software unilaterally handles file delivery required for faculty searches, recruitment, hiring, and promotion. Interfolio starts tracking tenure the moment a facility’s employee is hired. In order for Winthrop to retain its accreditation, the university must have a comprehensive faculty hiring process that requires faculty applicants to submit CVs and reference letters, which an evaluation committee then reviews. Other solutions allow various pieces of this process to be handled through their respective program, but not one all-encompassing solution, which is why countless other universities have standardized their hiring programs through the Interfolio application. Therefore, Winthrop intends to sole source these services for the period of March 22, 2023, through March 21, 2026. In accordance with Regulation 19-445.2105 (B)(5), where the item is one of a kind.

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