Notice End Date: November 15, 2023

Vendor Name: Korn Ferry

Contract Amount: $281,805

Agency Procurement Manager: Blythe Littlefield

Agency Procurement Manager Email: Blythe.Littlefield@sfaa.sc.gov

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 803-737-0901

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:

This agency proposes to procure consulting services to update the established compensation system, pay methodology, and performance management process as a sole source procurement from Korn Ferry. This proprietary methodology has been used to update the system and pay methodology since its inception. Korn Ferry’s (formerly Hay Group) unique knowledge of South Carolina’s compensation system and pay methodology sets them apart as the premier entity to continue their work for the state and to update our antiquated performance management process. The Agency Head Salary Commission aims to use the performance management process as a tool each year to expand on the reviewed salary structure done by Korn Ferry every three to five years. The current performance management process is outdated and has therefore been underutilized and ineffective. The performance management process is integrally connected to the current salary structure and pay system and it is essential that they link together for the benefit of providing the most useful and applicable results possible. The services being sought through this procurement will update the current salary structure and pay system which were last reviewed by Korn Ferry in 2020. In coordination with the pay structure study, an update to the outdated performance management system will also be performed.  South Carolina’s current compensation system and pay methodology was created using Korn Ferry’s unique, proprietary job measurement, methodology for executive compensation and agency head pay systems. Korn Ferry has conducted this analysis every three to five years since 1975. Their knowledge of the state’s agencies, agency heads, General Assembly leadership, and pay structure appropriately sets them apart to complete a review and update to the performance management process. The two projects are integrally connected, and it is necessary that they are done in conjunction with one another in order to provide the most cost-effective and streamlined approach that will maximize the effectiveness of both projects.

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: Other
Contact Name: Blythe Littlefield
Contact Email Address: Blythe.Littlefield@sfaa.sc.gov
Contact Mailing Address: 1200 Senate Street, Wade Hampton Building - Suite 600, Columbia, SC 29201