Notice End Date: December 4, 2025

Vendor Name: R1 Learning

Contract Amount: 155,000

Agency Procurement Manager: Brandalyn Brewer

Agency Procurement Manager Email: brandalyn.brewer@scdmh.org

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 8038968486

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 South Carolina Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (SCDBHDD) Office of Mental Health (OMG), Suicide Prevention Program (SPP) is intending to Sole Source with R1 Learning who provides training and awareness about suicide prevention efforts in SC.  More specifically the Sero Suicide Initiative Grant works with the SC Department of Corrections (SCDC), SC Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon (SC PPP), SC Department of Inpatient Services and Lexington County Community Mental Health Center to bring trainings to staff around suicide prevention.  The main intention is to bridge the gap in service once someone is released from SCDC custody either into SC PPP or to inpatient or outpatient treatment. R1 Learning is an education company providing an interactive curriculum that engages and retains individuals in service, increases practitioner effectiveness through workforce training and generates data for measuring outcomes.  R1 Learning delivers greater engagement for the leading evidence-based and best practice models and theories for mental health & wellness, substance use disorder, and life skills.  This grant faces unique challenges working inside correctional institutions where we are limited to what is allowable.  This program will assist the institutions with providing evidence-based therapy like DBT, which can be limiting due to institutional restrictions.   It will also allow peer support inmate programs to run groups inside the institutions.  This program can also be used among all our Grant Partners to keep the consistency of transition of care.  The vendor would provide OMH with an in-person train the trainer training.  Provide Discovery Kits for Clinicians, Coaches & Peers. Provide Discovery Kits for Groups. Provide Discovery Licenses and assistance for implementation and integration of the Discovery Licenses. 

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