Notice End Date: November 22, 2025

Vendor Name: Hill Crest Behavioral Health

Contract Amount: 63,000

Agency Procurement Manager: Tameka McClary

Agency Procurement Manager Email: Tameka.McClary@dss.sc.gov

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 803-898-9035

The Agency hereby provides notice that it entered into an emergency contract per S.C. Code Ann. §11-35-1570 with Vendor for the following supplies, services, information technology, or construction:

The recipient is an 18-year-old who has decided to remain in care to focus on earning his GED and further enhance his independent living skills. Hill Crest’s Higdon Hill is a congregate care program which is designed to support independent living skills specifically which will allow the youth to build and nurture a strong support system. It is believed that he would be productive in a smaller group setting and step-down program like Higdon Hill. There are no in-state facilities willing to accept admission of the youth due to his extensive psychiatric background. The youth is currently being stepped down from a PRTF level of care to a GC-III level of care. The vendor is able to provide specialized treatment at the GC-III level of care for the youth to obtain essential independent living skills to transition into after care.

Agency's justification for this emergency procurement may be viewed or 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 emergency 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 emergency 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