Notice End Date: June 9, 2026

Vendor Name: Lentech

Contract Amount: $116,320

Agency Procurement Manager: Kevin Finan

Agency Procurement Manager Email: kfinan@clemson.edu

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 8646569856

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:

Clemson University is seeking to sole source to Lentech the hosting services of our Kronos instance for a period of 3 months as Clemson works to download the history in the instance and upload it either to our new Workday solution or to a storage solution that is currently in use.  Clemson will be leaving Kronos for active use on July 1, 2026, but needs to additional time through the end of September, 2026 to receive the historical data and determine how best to store said history for possible usage at a later date.  Clemson is wanting to maintain our hosting relationship with Lentech as they are the current host of the application, and the time and cost to setup a new environment with a new provider would cost in excess of $30,000 and would take as long as it will take to download and store the historical information Lentech is already hosting, therefore this is a sole source.

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