Notice End Date: February 4, 2026

Vendor Name: Nanalysis Corp

Contract Amount: $77,307.50

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:

Clemson University’s Chemistry department seeks to sole source the purchase of a Nanalysis Corporation NMReady 60PRO benchtop NMR spectrometer.  The NMReady-60PRO benchtop NMR will be used in the AMIC Organic Chemistry Teaching Laboratories to support sophomore-level laboratory instruction. The instrument provides proton (¹H), carbon (¹³C), and fluorine (¹⁹F) NMR spectroscopy, enabling students to collect and interpret spectra essential to learning goals in structure determination, reaction monitoring, and spectroscopic analysis.  The Department of Chemistry already operates a legacy Nanalysis benchtop NMR instrument with ¹H/¹³C/¹⁹F capability. That model has been discontinued, and Nanalysis is the only vendor that offers the direct, manufacturer-recommended replacement (NMReady-60PRO) fully compatible with our existing curriculum, training materials, and data archives.  Other manufacturers do not offer a system that replicates the same capabilities, operating procedures, workflow, or data compatibility needed for seamless integration into our multi-section teaching labs.  Selecting equipment from any other manufacturer would require redevelopment of all existing NMR lab exercises and teaching materials and rewriting laboratory manuals, LabFlow content, and data interpretation guides, and would degrade current data continuity.  For these reasons, this is a sole source.

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