Notice End Date: August 21, 2026

Vendor Name: CompuGroup Medical SC, LLC

Contract Amount: 297,000

Agency Procurement Manager: Brandalyn Brewer

Agency Procurement Manager Email: brandalyn.brewer@scdmh.org

Agency Procurement Manager Telephone#: 8038988486

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:

Electronic Clearing House to submit claims for OMH inpatient Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) System provides for the transmission of electronic claims in the ANSI formats for both institutional (UB) and professional (HCFA 1500) claims as dictated by the standards for electronic transactions, 45 C.F.R parts 160 and 162, issued pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) of 1996. These claims are sent to CompuGroup via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) from our Inpatient Billing System (Avatar).  The client is installed and configured o the computers in the Reimbursement department, and SCDMH has worked with Compugroup to set up the crosswalks between Avatar and their system for electronic claim submission.  The client is proprietary software which CompuGroup either owns or has the right to license, relicense or sublicense, including all updates or error corrections which CompuGroup provides to their customers.  CompuGroup will run all claims transactions thru Transactions rule edits and payer specific edits as part of the claims submission process. Once claims have processed though edits, claims are sent to insurance carriers locally or nationwide. CompuGroup also gives the user the ability to access eligibility and claim status inquiries.  User can run standard and custom reports.  This system is crucial to our everyday submission of claims for the SC OMH.  CompuGroup provides access to proprietary software-based services which assist OMH in conducting electroni health care transactions with payers.

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