Notice End Date: March 20, 2026

Vendor Name: The Riley Institute at Furman University (for EOC)

Contract Amount: $89,135.40

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 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:

Education Oversight Committee (EOC)  intends to contract with The Riley Institute at Furman University to conduct the analysis, including a landscape assessment and a Return on Investment (ROI) study focused on the state’s 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC). This project requires a research entity capable of integrating statewide education policy analysis, direct engagement with South Carolina afterschool program providers and state agencies, and advanced economic modeling to estimate program costs and long-term economic returns. The scope of this project requires the ability to collect and interpret South Carolina–specific program data, coordinate with the state’s 21st CCLC network and other afterschool stakeholders, and translate program outcomes into measurable economic impacts through benefit-cost and net present value analyses. The vendor has the unique capability of doing all of this. 

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