Notice End Date: April 25, 2025

Vendor Name: Qiagen LLC

Contract Amount: $230,000.00

Agency Procurement Manager: Whitney Carswell

Agency Procurement Manager Email: carswewp@dph.sc.gov

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: (803) 898-3472

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 South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) is seeking a qualified vendor to provide one (1) QIAcuity System HEPA/UV Four dPCR platform and one (1) QIAgility liquid handler for the DPH Laboratory. The workflow system of these instruments will be used by the Virology Laboratory section to increase capacity for COVID, flu, and RSV wastewater testing.  The Laboratory already utilizes nanoplate digital PCR for the absolute quantification of COVID, flu, and RSV. Vendor’s instrumentation must have capability to automate DNA/RNA kits for efficient recovery of SARS-CoV2, flu, and RSV and removal of wastewater inhibitors; must be digital PCR that performs a minimum of 26,000 reaction partitioning of a minimum of 84 samples, thermocycling and result imaging on a single fully automated instrument. Vendor’s instruments/system and reagents must be from the same manufacturer and fit with the established workflow of the laboratory.

DPH, in accordance with South Carolina Procurement Code, Section 11-35-1560 and regulation 19-445.2105, is providing public notice of the intent to award a sole source contract to Qiagen LLC. The total estimated dollar amount of the two- year service contract purchase is $230,000.00.

Qualified vendors should contact Whitney Carswell at carswewp@dph.sc.gov by Midnight ET, March 25, 2025 for additional information.

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