Notice End Date: August 7, 2023

Vendor Name: HC Partnership DBA Hill Crest Behavioral Health Services

Contract Amount: $68,080

Agency Procurement Manager: Shaneka Oliver

Agency Procurement Manager Email: Shaneka.McDaniel-Oliver@dss.sc.gov

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 803 898 8182

The Agency hereby provides notice that it entered into an emergency contract per S.C. Code Ann. §11-35-1570 with Vendor for the following supplies, services, information technology, or construction:

SCDSS is pursuing the court ordered plan permanency plan of independent living for the youth. The recipient is a 17-year-old youth who presents with a past history of suicidal ideations, inappropriate sexual behaviors, anxiety, and depression. The youth’s oppositional behaviors and significant behavioral problems have improved which has resulted into the youth being stepped down from a PRTF level of care to a Group Care 3 Level of Care. However, no in-state facility is willing to accept admission of the youth due to the youth’s past behavior episodes.  This placement is needed as soon as August 1, 2023 and the agency has been unable to secure a placement with contracted providers.   Because this youth is ready to transition, and it for the youth own well-being, the must make this emergency placement. 

Agency's justification for this emergency procurement may be viewed or 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 emergency 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 emergency 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