Notice End Date: July 17, 2026

Vendor Name: Open AI

Contract Amount: $5,000,000

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:

OpenAI will provide:

Access to the ChatGPT Edu platform
Access to OpenAI's proprietary GPT models and successor models
Education-specific licensing
Enterprise single sign-on integration
Centralized administrative controls
API access for academic, research, and institutional use
Contractual data protections and platform management features
Continued access to existing custom GPTs and projects
Platform updates, enhancements, and support services

Pricing will be based on platform usage and consumption of advanced model capabilities during the contract period.

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