Notice End Date: April 14, 2023

Vendor Name: North Highland, 200 S. Tryon Street, Sute 1100, Charlotte, NC 28202

Contract Amount: $7,990,172

Agency Procurement Manager: Rebecca Lopez

Agency Procurement Manager Email: rebecca.lopez@scdhhs.gov

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 8038987379

The Agency hereby provides notice that it entered into an emergency contract per S.C. Code Ann. §11-35-1570 with Vendor for the following supplies, services, information technology, or construction:

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023,  provides state Medicaid agencies with a date of April 1, 2023 to resume the standard eligibility redetermination process.   April 2023 will begin a 14-month unwinding period, during which annual redeterminations for the state’s 1.5 million beneficiaries must be initiated during the first 12 months with redetermination processing completed in 14 months.  Due to the limited time available to identify and select a vendor that is able to provide the needed staff resources quickly with the state’s resumption of redetermination processing on April 1, 2023; the selected vendor’s ability to recruit qualified staff from an identified pool of candidates in the state; as well as the selected vendor’s demonstrated ability to provide this service in multiple other states, this vendor was chosen.

Agency's justification for this emergency procurement may be viewed or 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 emergency 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 emergency 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