Notice End Date: October 22, 2025

Vendor Name: Veritiv Services Inc

Contract Amount: 131,000

Agency Procurement Manager: Elsie Montgomery

Agency Procurement Manager Email: elsie.montgomery@admin.sc.gov

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: (803) 737-1178

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 Department of Administration will contract with Vertiv for the preventive maintenance and 24x7x365 onsite support and repair of the Vertiv uninterruptible power supply (UPS) modules and their accompanying battery strings for which the state data center depends for power redundancy and overall facility resiliency against loss of commercial power. Service on the equipment is only provided by Veritiv and their certified trained technicians. These components are critical infrastructure for the state.

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