Notice End Date: April 28, 2023

Vendor Name: Clemson University Research Foundation

Contract Amount: 81,809.24

Agency Procurement Manager: Rodney Stanford

Agency Procurement Manager Email: stanfo2@clemson.edu

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 8646568596

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:

170096987  Clemson requires specific research-related functions (sponsored research, technology transfer and projects of interest, startups and related services) to be performed by a 3rd party due to current limitations restricting/prohibiting Clemson from adequately doing so under current law (e.g. choice of law, prohibition to holding equity, contracting for patenting services, indemnification, financing, access to funds not available to public entities, etc...). Services must be closely aligned with the University goals which would be impossible with any for profit supplier that by definition would have conflicting goals. Currently CURF as a 509(a)(3) not-for-profit is the only entity structured to support the University in this direct manner and thus this contract is a sole source procurement.

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