Notice End Date: July 9, 2026

Vendor Name: Greene Scientific LLC

Contract Amount: 87000.00

Agency Procurement Manager: James Boutchyard

Agency Procurement Manager Email: jboutchyard@scda.sc.gov

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 8037342206

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:

RE-ADVERTISEMENT TO CORRECT CONTRACT VALUE FROM ORIGINAL POSTING: The South Carolina Department of Agriculture (SCDA), in accordance with South Carolina Procurement Code, Section 11-35-1560 and regulation 19-445.2105, is providing public notice of the intent to award a sole source contract to Greene Scientific LLC. Greene Scientific will provide, Scientific Consulting and Research Program Management, including identifying SC agricultural industry’s needs for research, preparing and advertising requests for pre-proposals based on SC agricultural industry’s needs for research and problem-solving, organizing pre-proposals, progress and final reports into semi-annual booklets for each of the separate industry segments, relaying this information to the appropriate industry leaders, organizing industry leaders from each identified industry segment to review progress on research as well as new research pre-proposals during Research Committee meetings, creating documentation between SCDA and each academic institution to establish contracts and grant accounts for research to be initiated and conducted, and managing all relationships between SCDA and researchers and between SCDA and industry members related to research, pre-proposals, and final reports on the selected projects.

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