Plastic injection -lunch tray mold

The South Carolina Department of Corrections issued Solicitation 5400023589 for a turn-key plastic injection mold system to produce lunch trays and lids for the Wateree River Farm facility. The procurement requires engineering services to create Solidworks 3-D models of modified tray and lid components, specifically involving removal of the cutlery compartment, enlargement of adjacent compartments, and correction of stacking features while maintaining existing footprint dimensions. The project mandates single-cavity molds for both tray and lid constructed from P-20 steel with cold runners, self-ejecting mechanisms, and embedded South Carolina Department of Correction Agriculture Division seals. The molds must be fully compatible with the existing 1993 Cincinnati VT550-54 plastic injection molding machine. The bid submission deadline was July 12, 2022, at 10:00 AM, with an initial award notification scheduled for July 18, 2022. Deliverables include a complete 3-D model requiring prior approval from the SCDC Agriculture Division before mold manufacturing can commence, with a specified delivery timeframe of twenty weeks after purchase order receipt.

The solicitation was open to registered South Carolina vendors, with potential eligibility for end-product preferences under Section 11-35-1524 of the South Carolina Code of Laws. Only one response was received to the solicitation, which allowed for a waiver of the standard seven-business-day award delay under procurement code 11-35-1520(10). TerBeek Molding & Tool, LLC of Peachtree City, Georgia was awarded the contract for a fixed price of $124,000.00, covering the entire mold system including delivery. The procurement process included an initial award posting on July 27, 2022, a subsequent suspension on August 9, 2022, and a reinstatement on August 19, 2022. The contract was managed internally by procurement officer Myrtle deWerdt, with Ruthie H. Bishop serving as Director of Procurement. No specific set-aside designations for disadvantaged enterprises were explicitly mentioned in the solicitation documents.