Notice End Date: April 23, 2024

Vendor Name: Multiple Vendors

Contract Amount: $500,000.00

Agency Procurement Manager: Carlos Burns

Agency Procurement Manager Email: carlos.burns@ddsn.sc.gov

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: (803) 898-9631

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:

South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs (SCDDSN) intends to award an emergency purchase order for multiple vendors that must provide transportation services to children and adults, who need transportation to participate in needed programs, activities, appointments, or transfer between facilities. SCDDSN currently uses the multi-agency transportation services. The nature of the emergency is that the number of individuals under DDSN's care far exceeds the current capability to provide transportation and a gap in service is not a viable choice. Vendors must have knowledge of DDSN's Client base and current needs as sometimes there is an overlap in individuals served between, DDSN, DMH, DJJ, and DSS in some cases. DDSN and DSS serve the same clients as youth with intellectual disabilities or autism may also be in foster care with Intellectual Disabilities or Autism.

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