Notice End Date: July 14, 2026

Vendor Name: Ellucian

Contract Amount: $152,358.75

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:

Ellucian Company LLC will provide annual Software Development Maintenance Services (Mod Center) for five existing Financial Aid customizations within the University's on-premise Banner ERP environment.
Services include:

Maintenance of existing custom source code.
Troubleshooting and technical support.
Defect identification and correction.
Technical enhancements and modifications.
Analysis, design, programming, and coding services.
Unit and integration testing.
Software documentation.
Deployment support.
Support for Banner upgrades and releases affecting the custom software.
First-level technical support for the maintained customizations.

Maintenance services apply to the following Financial Aid customizations:

USC 001 – Financial Aid VPD Configuration
USC 002 – Financial Aid RSRRENRL_RPEDISB Customization
USC 004 – Financial Aid Campus Selector Customization
USC 005 – Financial Aid Hope-Life Scholarship Customization
USC 006 – Financial Aid Summer Application

The maintenance period is 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