Notice End Date: November 18, 2025

Vendor Name: Beckman Coulter Inc.

Contract Amount: $106,425

Agency Procurement Manager: Corliss Johnson

Agency Procurement Manager Email: johnscor@musc.edu

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 8439852993

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:

MUSC Hollings Cancer Center Cell Sorting Shared Resource Laboratory is requesting to purchase a maintenance agreement. (Beckman Coulter CytoFlex LX (Serial# BD45318) (83195010-Asset tag), and Beckman Coulter MoFlo Astrios). Beckman Coulter is the manufacturer of the equipment, and only their technicians are authorized to provide repair services.  The instruments are equipped with data-acquisition computers and proprietary software, which only representatives of Beckman Coulter have the necessary permissions to troubleshoot and repair issues with the software or the associated computer. No other companies are authorized to service Beckman Coulter CytoFlex LX and Beckman Coulter MoFlo Astrios instruments and associated software. Only Beckman Coulter technicians have the necessary training and proprietary tools. MUSC is declaring this a sole source procurement in accordance with SC Consolidate Procurement Code 11-35-1560.

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