Notice End Date: July 26, 2024

Vendor Name: TEK84 Inc

Contract Amount: 1,093,500.00

Agency Procurement Manager: Michele Mahon

Agency Procurement Manager Email: michelepmahon@djj.sc.gov

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 803-521-6512

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:

SCDJJ has been granted subrecipient funds for critically needed Full-body scanners for our youth detention facilities. The grant specified the TEK84 Interceptor was vetted and approved and follows the SC Department of Enviornmental Services (SCDES) formally SCDHEC radiation guidelines. It is fiscally essential and paramount that SCDJJ obtain and implement the scanners within the timeline of the grant therefor justifying a sole source to ensure timely installation, equipment approval from the SCDES all within the grant timelines.  This will increase the agency's ability to prevent contraband from entering the facilities, thus increasing the safety of the youth.

 

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: Information Technology Management Officer