Notice End Date: June 6, 2023

Vendor Name: TENA Companies, Inc

Contract Amount: 393,310.78

Agency Procurement Manager: Ashish V. Kansupada

Agency Procurement Manager Email: Ashish.Kansupada@schousing.com

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 803.896.9096

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 State Housing Finance and Development Authority (SC Housing) intends to create a Sole Source contract valued at $393,310.78 for the term of one initial year with a one year renewal optional to TENA Companies, Inc (TENA).  TENA shall supply its organization’s proprietary software, in-depth training to use the software purchased and temporary support staffing to assist SC Housing be compliant to Housing and Urban Development's (HUD’s) regulations and guidelines. In combination, all three facets will ensure SC Housing’s understaffed Quality Assurance department brings all SC Housing's Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans into compliance with HUD’s federal standards, now and in the future.  There have been numerous significant regulatory changes that have occurred during the last few years impacting FHA mortgage servicing.  TENA is the only organization capable of providing retroactive and current HUD regulations pertaining to inquiry databases which are applicable to the regulations in effect during the timespan of the FHA loans being reviewed. That is, whether the FHA loan being reviewed is from two years ago, or is recent, TENA’s software allows quality assurance reviews of the FHA loans for the time frame in which they were executed.

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