Notice End Date: December 16, 2025

Vendor Name: Fast Data Services

Contract Amount: 7000000

Agency Procurement Manager: Matthew Warren

Agency Procurement Manager Email: Matthew.Warren@dor.sc.gov

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 8038985426

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:

SCDOR procured Gentax Tax Management System (DOR WAY) from Fast Enterprises in 2014. The Gentax System has several additional modules available that SCDOR did not procure initially, but that allow SCDOR to make better use of the system in necessary ways. Moreover, SCDOR has identified two of the modules as fulfilling an agency need; specifically, an Advanced Fraud Detection solution and an Identity Verification. The Advanced Fraud-Detection System and Identity Verification modules offered by Fast are an add-on module to the Gentax system. It is the only Advanced Fraud-Detection System and Identity Verification that SCDOR could implement seamlessly without an overhaul or reintegration of the agency's Tax Management Systems. Therefore, because SCDOR currently utilizes the Gentax Tax Management System from Fast Enterprises, and SCDOR has a need for Advanced Fraud-Detection and Identity Verification, a Sole Source contract is needed for the Advanced Fraud-Detection System module and Identity Verification module. 

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: Information Technology Management Officer