Notice End Date: March 21, 2025

Vendor Name: Akoya Biosciences Inc.

Contract Amount: $114,912

Agency Procurement Manager: Corliss Johnson

Agency Procurement Manager Email: johnscor@musc.edu

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 8439852993

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:

The basis for this sole source purchases is: The Medical University of South Carolina Hollings Cancer request to purchase the renewal of a maintenance agreement for the Vectra Polaris Automated Quantitative Pathology Imaging System (Serial Number: VP1725N1015, Asset Number: 83193884), The maintenance agreement coverage is from July 25, 2025, to July 24, 2028. Akoya Biosciences, Inc. is the sole manufacturer and service provider for this system. The Vectra Polaris is designed and manufactured under multiple patents, ensuring reliability, ease of use, and data integrity. Proper instrument maintenance by certified engineers is crucial for the quality research results required by our Translational Lab. Akoya Biosciences provides exclusive service and support through its team of trained engineers. No third-party engineers or service providers are authorized or certified to service this equipment. MUSC is declaring this a sole source procurement is accordance with SC Consolidate Procurement Code 11-35-1560.
 

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