Notice End Date: April 14, 2026

Vendor Name: Education Analytics (for EOC)

Contract Amount: 2,923,000.0

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:

The SC Education Oversight Committee (EOC) will enter a contract with Education Analytics (EA) to provide maintenance, support, administrative services and required reporting for State and District Level Ed-Fi Operational Data Systems (ODS),  PolyForm Noncommercial licensed district level integrated longitudinal storage sets, (DLSS), PolyForm Noncommercial licensed state integrated longitudinal storage sets (SLSS) that include a view for de-identified tables, and Apache Superset open-source business intelligence solution. EA will provide a series of on demand reports sourced from the Ed-Fi Application Programing Interface (API) that support validation of information from the Student Information System (SIS). This solution must be run by the ED-FI Admin API and this vendor is currently the only officially badged vendor that can provide these services thru the ED-FI Admin API.  EA’s solution is the only solution available in the market that can provide Displays of students’ interim & benchmark assessment information for the current school year to date including, as applicable, assessments taken at different schools for students who have transferred within the state.

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