Notice End Date: July 7, 2026

Vendor Name: SAS Institute, Inc.

Contract Amount: $70,946

Agency Procurement Manager: Caroline Hulett

Agency Procurement Manager Email: hulett@mailbox.sc.edu

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 8037774117

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:

SAS Institute Inc. will provide annual software licensing, maintenance, and support for the SAS Educational Analytical Suite currently deployed across the University.
Services include:

Continued licensing for campus-wide SAS software usage
Software maintenance, updates, and enhancements
Technical support for users
Access to analytical tools and modules for data management, statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and reporting

The license period will cover July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027.

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