Notice End Date: April 5, 2023

Vendor Name: Intent to Sole Source 4K Assessments

Contract Amount: $1,200,000.00

Agency Procurement Manager: La'Toyia T. Davis

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

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 803-734-2904

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 purchase training, administration, scoring, and reporting services for two 4K assessments to be administered during the 2023–24 school year. Individual Growth and Development Indicators of Early Literacy (myIGDIs™) will be purchased from Renaissance Learning. GOLD® will be purchased from Teaching Strategies, LLC. The total estimated total dollar amount of the purchases is $1,200,000.

S.C. Code § 59-155-150 requires that students entering publicly funded prekindergarten and kindergarten beginning must be administered a readiness assessment by the forty-fifth day of the school year.

Proviso 1A.49, included in H. 4300, the budget bill for FY 2023–2024, as passed by the House of Representatives on March 15, 2023, requires that the South Carolina Department of Education manage the administration of assessments that analyze the early literacy and language development of children in publicly funded prekindergarten as done in the prior fiscal year. The three 4K assessments administered for 2022-23, were PALS, myIGDIs, and GOLD. However, PALS will no longer be available for administration in school year 2023–24.

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