Notice End Date: May 5, 2026

Vendor Name: West Carolina Telephone Cooperative Inc

Contract Amount: 64156.25

Agency Procurement Manager: Alicia Sanders

Agency Procurement Manager Email: asanders@scprt.com

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 803-734-1302

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:

SC State Park will be replacing cellular campground/bathhouse connections with broadband. This change provides more consistent usable solutions for DFSP campground customers. Cellular connections are unreliable, inconsistent and not equipped to provide effective public WIFI in the campground at Devils Fork State Park. Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative and WC Fiber have partnered to provide an all Fiber-to-the Home services for customers in Anderson, Greenville, Oconee, and Pickens counties. WC fiber is the sole provider of fiber services for Blue Ridge Cooperative.

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