Notice End Date: March 25, 2025

Vendor Name: INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE - Johnstone Supply

Contract Amount: 80,000

Agency Procurement Manager: Brandalyn Brewer

Agency Procurement Manager Email: brandalyn.brewer@scdmh.org

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 8038988486

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:

INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE with Johnstone Supply for HVAC Supplies for all Patient and Staff Areas. Due to the age of the facilities that SCDMH maintains, parts used for repair and maintenance are difficult to locate. Johnstone Supply is the only vendor that provides  these items needed to keep these buildings operable. Johnstone supplies typically purchased are electric motors, fan coil parts, heat strips and contactors for HVAC equipment. Due to the cost of some of these items we are continually going over the preferred dollar amount. What maintenance ends up doing is hiring a vendor that goes to Johnstone Supply to get the same parts we would purchase and charge us a supply fee which ends up costing the agency more money in the long run. This being the reason why we would like to Sole Source Johnstone Supply. SCDMH have researched local vendors and no one other than Johnstone Supply provides the parts due to the age of the equipment.

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