Notice End Date: April 7, 2023

Vendor Name: Sole Source USGS

Contract Amount: 543,974.00

Agency Procurement Manager: Andy Bowman, CPPB

Agency Procurement Manager Email: BowmanA@dnr.sc.gov

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 18037343933

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:

SCDNR is the agency responsible for developing the State Water Plan which focuses on ensuring groundwater availability for all future uses. Regional groundwater models in the Coastal Plain are needed to evaluate future water availability and to test water management strategies that will ensure future water needs can be met. The USGS has a long history of groundwater modeling in SC, have already developed a foundation for efficiently developing new regional groundwater models, and are in a unique position to complete the work in a manner consistent with SCDNR’s demanding schedule . Groundwater models are similar in several important ways to the surface water models developed for the eight planning basins in the state – both are used to evaluate water availability, both simulate the distribution of the water resources in the state, both depend on historic hydrologic and meteorologic data, and both require calibration. 

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