Notice End Date: November 11, 2025

Vendor Name: Youth Villages Inc.

Contract Amount: $3,950,050.00

Agency Procurement Manager: Rebecca O'Brien

Agency Procurement Manager Email: Rebecca.OBrien@dss.sc.gov

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 803-898-7114

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:

Youth Villages is the developer and sole provider of the proprietary integrated, intensive in-home parenting skills program, Intercept®. Agency performed an internet search and reviewed documentation from that provider that states The Intercept model is the property of Youth Villages, and Youth Villages is the exclusive purveyor of the Intercept model. The program model and contents of the online clinical portal known as Guide Tree® (which is central to the case conceptualization process utilized for ever case throughout the duration of treatment) are proprietary. Youth Villages claims copyright, trademark, and trade secret rights to these materials.

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