Notice End Date: March 18, 2026

Vendor Name: CaseWorthy (for SC Office of First Steps)

Contract Amount: $1,754,706.00

Agency Procurement Manager: Elsie Montgomery

Agency Procurement Manager Email: elsie.montgomery@admin.sc.gov

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: (803) 737-1178

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:

SC First Steps will enter a contract under emergency procurement for a period of three (3) years to secure a functional data system immediately. This will stabilize operations, and allow sufficient time for full implementation, data migration, user adoption, and evaluation across all programs for SC First Steps’ legislatively mandated early childhood services. 

The agency’s legacy statewide data system will be permanently decommissioned in September 2026. After several years of development, SC First Steps (SCFS) determined in June 2025 that its custom-built replacement data system did not meet operational, reporting, or administrative needs.

A three-year term is necessary to ensure continuity of services while we complete the full competitive RFP process for the long-term enterprise solution and then transition to that competitively awarded system without risking another disruption in statewide operations.

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: Information Technology Management Officer