Notice End Date: May 15, 2023

Vendor Name: Fora Care Inc

Contract Amount: $675,000.00

Agency Procurement Manager: Vertelle G. Seabrook

Agency Procurement Manager Email: seabrokv@musc.edu

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 8437923885

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 Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Medicine, in accordance with South Carolina Procurement Code, Section 11-35-1560 and regulation 19-445.2105, is providing public notice of the Intent to Sole Source a contract to Fora Care Inc, for a five (5) year renewal terms. The annual value of the contract is $135,000.00.

The Department of General Internal Medicine is requesting to purchase diabetes supplies from Fora Care Inc. The requested supplies is for an on-going research project-TACM-2 Telehealth-- for diabetics in the rural South Carolina areas. Any deviation from this product/monitoring service would cause extreme disruption to our remote patient monitoring intervention which encompasses multiple geographic areas in South Carolina. Currently there are 6 Professional Service Agreements for the research project (PL18271094-Shifa Free Clinic; PL18275656-Dillon County Free Medical Clinic; PL18280005-Helping Hands Free Medical Clinic; PC19280006-Little River Medical Center, Inc.; PA19281120-Regenesis Organization & PI19308784-St. James-Santee Family Health Center). The purpose of this research program is to help low income patients achieve and maintain better self-management skills and improve blood sugar levels, using the FORA 2-in-1 Telehealth system for diabetes management intervention. This achieve by linking a case manager to patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes in real time. Medications are titrated under supervision of primary care and/or endocrinology physicians. Fora Care, Inc. is the sole manufacture and distributor of the FORA 2-in-1 Relehealth System.

PROTESTS (MAY 2019): If you are aggrieved in connection with the intended award of this contract, you may be entitled to protest, but only as provided in §11-35-4210. To protest an intended award of a contract pursuant to §11-35-1560, you shall (i) notify the chief procurement officer in writing of your intent to protest within five (5) business days of the date this intent to award is posted, and (ii) if the appropriate chief procurement officer has been timely notified of your intent to protest, you may submit your actual protest within fifteen days of the date this notice of intent to award is posted. Days are calculated as provided in §11-35-310(13). Both protests and notices of intent to protest must be in writing and must be received by the appropriate Chief Procurement Officer within the time provided. The grounds of the protest and the relief requested must be set forth with enough particularity to give notice of the issues to be decided.

Any protest or notice of intent to protest must be addressed to the Chief Procurement Officer, Materials Management Office, and submitted in writing (a) by email to: protest-mmo@mmo.sc.gov or (b) by post or delivery to: 1201 Main Street, Suite 600, Columbia, SC 29201

Qualified vendors should contact Vertelle G. Seabrook (seabrokv@musc.edu) via email prior to the contact deadline: May 15, 2023; 12:00 AM EST Time. Please address your subject line as follows: Notice of Intent to Sole Source

 

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