Notice End Date: November 13, 2025

Vendor Name: Agilent Technologies, Inc.

Contract Amount: $102,608.32

Agency Procurement Manager: SC Young

Agency Procurement Manager Email: scy@clemson.edu

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 864-656-2830

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:

For my research group (synthetic organic chemistry), we require an Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC) system to measure/monitor/characterize enantio-purity of chiral organic compounds that are generated using our catalytic methods.  This SFC system is essential to my research program as it enables facile chiral analysis of wide-range of organic compounds.  The sample introduction on the Agilent SFC utilizes FEED injection so we can inject reliability and reproducibly from 0.1uL to 90uL without changing the loop due to sample limitations.  The Agilent 1260 also has a higher pressure-limit of 600bar vs other SFC, also with higher flow rates (up to 5ml/min).  Agilent is the only supplier that can provide such an SFC system that meets these requirements. We researched other suppliers, all of which led to the determination that Agilent has the unique ability to meet our needs. For these reasons, this is a sole source procurement.

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