Notice End Date: June 2, 2023

Vendor Name: RONCO

Contract Amount: $15,000,000.00

Agency Procurement Manager: Myrtle deWerdt

Agency Procurement Manager Email: bidsubmissions@doc.sc.gov

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 803-896-8533

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:

Intent to Award Sole Source

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

 

This is a (1) year Sole source with (4) automatically renewable (1) year Terms for a potential of (5) Years

Initial Term: 06/02/2023 – 06/01/2024   Potential Term: 06/02/2023 – 06/01/2028

 

The South Carolina Department of Corrections intends to Sole Source Ronco for the provision of the ELPAS/RTLS Man-Down Duress System. The RTLS System is a combined hardware and software solution delivering wireless monitoring/tracking of prison guards facilitating faster response time during emergencies in the inmate population. The RTLS System contains a Software Development Kit for the development of interfaces to external building and security systems. Including a Web Services based interface to enable simple integration by developers and to access and update database events and objects. Interfaces with Intrusion, CCTV, Access Control and Patient Call Systems

• This system will support local devices that continue to annunciate duress(man-down) alerts during network or server outages. The system uses Controller Based Alerts for Man-Down, Trouble events for any device connected to its RS-485 BUS (subnet) such as Device Tamper (and restore), Low Voltage (and restore), Communication (crc) errors (and Restore), Bus Capacity Exceeded, Antenna Removed (and Restore), Server Communication Failure (and Restore).
• The system will support wireless temperature monitoring by utilizing the same 433 MHz Radio Frequency Infrastructure to monitor temperature and annunciate out of range alerts for Refrigerators, Food Pantries, Medicine Cabinets as well as ambient temperature in housing units, server rooms, etc.
• The system supports wireless temperature monitoring by utilizing the same 433 MHz Radio Frequency Infrastructure to monitor temperature and annunciate out of range alerts for Refrigerators, Food Pantries, Medicine Cabinets as well as ambient temperature in housing units, server rooms, etc.
• The system must reliably provide location and distinguish between indoor, outdoor and separate floors.

There is no other system that can support all of these features on the same platform.  While companies that use disparate systems can achieve some of the outcomes but are not able to do it all from one system.  The key is ability it to do it all at that level from one hardware/software platform. The RTLS System contains a Software Development Kit for the development of interfaces to external building and security systems. Including a Web Services based interface to enable simple integration by developers and to access and update database events and objects. Interfaces with Intrusion, CCTV, Access Control and Patient Call Systems. RONCO is the Sole Certified partner of ELPAS/Centrak in the state of South Carolina with the applicable technical certification to support a correctional project. Ronco has offices throughout State of South Carolina that can provide local support to each one of the SCDOC institutions

 

Agency's justification for a sole source procurement may be viewed or immediately obtained at: Web Address Where Item Is Posted
URL To View Justification: http://webprod.cio.sc.gov/SCSolicitationWeb/solicitationAttachment.do?solicitnumber=5400025349

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