Notice End Date: January 22, 2024

Vendor Name: AMTI Dual Belt Compact End-to-End Incline Instrumented Treadmill

Contract Amount: $137,000.00

Agency Procurement Manager: SC Young

Agency Procurement Manager Email: scy@clemson.edu

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 864-656-2830

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 the purchase of a Dual Belt Compact End-to-End with Incline, instrumented treadmill.   This particular treadmill with incline/decline capabilities, fore-aft dual belts, and instrumented force plates for 3D ground reaction force measurements is required for the research being conducted in the laboratory.  This equipment is necessary to do inverse dynamics analysis of walking for extended periods of time, which is fundamental to doing human movement biomechanics research, a pillar of my research lab. I am collecting this data on older adults in a pilot study to bolster external grant proposals funding researching at the intersection of healthy aging and gait biomechanics. In a separate project, I will use this treadmill to study how injured athletes adapt their gait to offload injured joints/tissues. This is in collaboration with orthopedic surgeons, athletic trainers and physical therapists in PRISMA Health and Clemson University Athletics. A dual belt treadmill is required to appropriately capture the individual loads on each foot during double stance phase of gait. Without dual belts, inverse dynamics cannot be done. There are two options: side by side dual belts or fore-aft dual belts. Side by side belts are undesirable because they encourage a wider than normal stance width which introduces an artifact that influences experimental results. Fore-aft belts are thus the preferred mechanism.  AMTI has a patent on the fore-aft dual belt treadmill that precludes other vendors from offering the same technology. Fore-aft dual belt treadmills are only available with AMTI and are not available for purchase from any other reseller or distributors.  For these reasons, this are a sole source.

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