Notice End Date: April 21, 2026

Vendor Name: Housing and Development Services (7000179120)

Contract Amount: $603,406.61

Agency Procurement Manager: Ashish V. Kansupada

Agency Procurement Manager Email: ashish.kansupada@schousing.com

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 803.896.9068

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:

Based on market research and operational requirements, SC Housing has determined that HDS is the only vendor capable of providing the required end to end HAPIS to SCEIS solution, including the NextGen hosted interface, required HDS application modules, migration services, hosting, training, and five years of support. HDS uniquely provides native SCEIS file generation compatible with the State treasury import requirements, a migration path from SC Housing’s 20+ year HDS on-premise deployment, and a hosted operational model that assumes responsibility for daily processing – capabilities necessary to meet HUD’s 24 hour reconciliation mandate. Given HUD’s per day civil penalty exposure (est. $15,000,000.00 per day) for failure to timely issue payments, no other vendor or internal option can meet these functional, timing, and operational requirements without unacceptable schedule, cost and compliance risk. If an alternative solution is chosen an increased probability of missed HUD deadlines, potential daily penalties, high short term costs for customization, longer implementation timelines and greater ongoing burden to SC Housing IT.  With HDS, SC Housing has lower implementation and compliance risk, preserved business rules and mappings, vendor accountability for hosting and operations, and structured training to sustain operations –thereby materially reducing the risk of incurring the HUD daily penalty.

Agency's justification for a sole source procurement may be viewed or immediately obtained at: NextGen with HAPIS Intergration | https://apps.sceis.sc.gov/SCSolicitationWeb/contractSearch.do?solicitnumber=5400028785

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