Notice End Date: May 1, 2024

Vendor Name: High Temperature Rare Earth Doping System

Contract Amount: $392,000.00

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 COMSET facility currently owns a modified chemical vapor deposition (mcvd) system manufactured by SG Controls Limited.  This system is currently used to conduct materials research on glass for high energy laser applications. To further enhance the capabilities of our research, COMSET seeks to purchase and install an additional rare earth doping system based on the use of rare earth chlorides from SG Controls. The purchase of this equipment from SG Controls is unique for the following reasons a)No other domestic or international supplier of this type of rare earth chloride doping system, to our knowledge and research, exists commercially for purchase b) SG Controls is the builder of the current mcvd system and can thus integrate the new technology seamlessly into the existing system c)SG Controls maintains the engineering expertise and knowledge base to provide the long term support of the equipment and d) the vapor phase doping system from SG Controls is the only one available that allows for vapor deposition of the rare earths in an mcvd process, which we require for our ongoing high energy research applications.  The SG Controls equipment cannot be purchased from any other reseller or distributor.  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