Notice End Date: August 9, 2023

Vendor Name: TA Instruments DSC 250 Digital Scanning Calorimeter

Contract Amount: $86,235.00

Agency Procurement Manager: SC Young

Agency Procurement Manager Email: scy@clemson.edu

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 8646562830

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:

Clemson University's Bioengineering department seeks to sole source a TA Instruments DSC 250 digital scanning calorimeter.  This Digital Scanning Calorimeter equipment will be used to measure thermal properties of tissues treated with different cryoprotectants during cooling from the room temperature to cryogenitc temperatures as low as -180C degree, with a high temperature accurary of +/- 0.05C deg. Based on three products from different vendors, only the DISCOVERY DSC 250 from TA Instruments and DSC8000 from Perkin Elmer have these specific capacities. In contrast, Mettlor Toledo's DSC 3 can only cool down to -150C and have a lower temperature accuracy of +/-0.2C deg . For consistency in our research and continuity of research data previously recorded, it is essential to replace the equipment from the same vendor as the DSC (TA Instruments) as used in my previous study. The DSC 250's ability to meet the necessary cooling temperature and accuracy requirements along with ensuring continuity of research data ensures that we can conduct our research effectively and without delay. For these reasons, this is a sole source procurement.

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