Legal Notices

NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE PROCUREMENT MU23EAB Response Deadline: 3:00 p.m., LPT, Friday November 11, 2022 Marshall University intends to waive the solicitation process and approve a sole source to purchase a New Student Success Management System for the Office of Academic Affairs. The University has determined that campus continuation of services; primary retention platform will provide economies of scale in implementation cost, training and maintenance. Justification: The University has determined EAB has many unique features that are essential to the University’s program. Those features include the following: o The only SSMS that establishes a true coordinated care network fully integrated on a single platform o Allow users to execute multiple kinds of interventions, across various workflows o institutional approach to student success management complete suite of tools for a coordinated and proactive o No interruptions in service Interested Vendors (firms or individuals) that can sell an “or equal” Student Success Management System to the University can respond with an alternate solution that overcomes the sole source reasons stated above, along with sufficient, detailed, convincing documentation, regarding their ability to supply equivalent system. The Vendor’s response must be sent directly to Marshall University’s Associate Director of Purchasing at [email protected] and received no later than 3:00 p.m., LPT, Friday November 11, 2022. Any responses to this notice must show clear and convincing evidence that competition would be advantageous to the University. Supporting documentation should include, but is not limited to, system specifications. The University reserves the right to require the responding Vendor to submit additional information as it may deem necessary and may consider any evidence available to it of the financial technical and other qualifications and abilities of the responding Vendor. This is not a request for bids or proposals and there is no solicitation available. The University will not consider any responses as a proposal, bid, or quote. Any response received as a result of this Notice of Intent shall be considered solely for determining whether bona fide competition exists. If it is determined by University staff, after reviewing any information received from responding Vendors, that sole source justification stands and the aircraft are available only from a sole source, the University will waive the solicitation process and award the sole source procurement. LH-140329 11-8;2022