Notice End Date: June 1, 2023

Vendor Name: Illumina, Inc.

Contract Amount: $185,000.00

Agency Procurement Manager: Amber Kerr

Agency Procurement Manager Email: kerral@dhec.sc.gov

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 803-898-3484

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 South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is seeking qualified vendors to provide one (1) Illumina NexSeq 1000 Sequencing System and a One Year Warranty.

As members of the CDC’s PulseNet national foodborne outbreak surveillance network, DHEC’s lab is responsible for reporting their statewide results to the CDC in order to link South Carolina outbreaks to any and all national foodborne outbreaks.

This system will give the Public Health Laboratory the ability to sequence more samples within the CDC’s required turn-around times. With a new emphasis being placed on Wastewater testing and surveillance, the NextSeq 1000 system will allow larger genomes to be processed without interrupting the current workflow for other sample types. This system is to be used in the DHEC Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory. The total estimated dollar amount of the purchase is $185,000.

Qualified vendors should contact Amber Kerr via email at kerral@dhec.sc.gov by June 1, 2023, for additional information.

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: Information Technology Management Officer