Notice End Date: September 10, 2024

Vendor Name: Salesforce

Contract Amount: 70909.69

Agency Procurement Manager: Kelly Cobian

Agency Procurement Manager Email: Kelly.Cobian@schousing.com

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 803-896-8694

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:

During the COVID-19 pandemic, SCHA received grant money from the South Carolina Department of Commerce to support the SC Stay program. Designed by HUD (Home and Urban Development – Federal level), the CDBG-CV (Community Development Block Grant CARES Act) grant allowed SC Department of Commerce to grant SCHA (as a subrecipient) to provide financial assistance to homeowners (and tenants) at risk of losing their homes due to the coronavirus. The auditable files related to the grants must be maintained for 5 years after the HUD-developed federal program is sunset, audited, and closed at the Federal level.  Salesforce is the only vendor that can keep the files uninterrupted while SCHA waits for the program to be sunset, audited and closed.  Salesforce is charging SCHA $14,018.14 for the data storage for 5 years totaling $70,090.69 for the 5 year contract.  Salesforce is the only vendor that can keep the files organized in the event of an audit without additional work needing to be completed.

Agency's justification for a sole source procurement may be viewed or immediately obtained at: Web Address Where Item Is Posted
URL To View Justification: https://apps.sceis.sc.gov/SCSolicitationWeb/contractSearch.do?solicitnumber=5400027372

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