Notice End Date: June 29, 2026

Vendor Name: Oxford Medical Simulation Inc.

Contract Amount: 51856.20

Agency Procurement Manager: Tracy O'Keefe

Agency Procurement Manager Email: tokeefe@coastal.edu

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 843-349-2741

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:

Coastal Carolina University requires a healthcare simulation platform to support clinical education, assessment, and competency development across its healthcare programs. The University’s instructional model increasingly relies on scalable experiential learning, requiring students to engage in realistic clinical scenarios that reinforce decision-making, prioritization, and patient management skills.

To meet these needs, the University must implement a platform that enables independent, repeatable, and accessible simulation-based learning without the operational constraints of traditional simulation environments. In practical terms, this means the platform must support:

- Delivery of immersive clinical scenarios where learner decisions directly impact outcomes
- Flexible access through both virtual reality and standard computing environments
- Independent learner participation without continuous instructor facilitation
- Measurable performance outcomes tied to clinical competencies
- Faculty ability to develop, modify, and deploy simulation content

These requirements are necessary to expand training capacity, maintain instructional consistency, and reduce reliance on space-limited simulation labs and instructor-led delivery.

Agency's justification for a sole source procurement may be viewed or immediately obtained at: Web Address Where Item Is Posted
URL To View Justification: https://ccucloud.coastal.edu/index.php/s/RWPnmt6me8GdmAE

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