STC SMALL SOFTWARE APP DEVELOPMENT

The State of South Carolina has issued a statewide term contract solicitation (5400020845) for Small Software Application Development services, seeking to establish an indefinite delivery, multiple-award, fixed-price contract for state and local public bodies. The procurement aims to support software application enhancement, rewriting of Modified Off-the-Shelf (MOTS) or custom software applications, and development of new custom software applications through a structured ten-module approach spanning business needs identification to implementation and go-live. Contractors will be required to complete work across modules including business requirements definition, solution design, code development, testing, installation, user testing, training, documentation, and implementation. Evaluation criteria will focus on technical approach, worker qualifications, implementation schedule, hour allocation, and proposed job order pricing, with technical factors weighted at no less than 60 percent. Key dates include a pre-bid conference originally scheduled for February 9, 2021, via WebEx, with questions due by February 10, 2021, and proposal submissions due by March 5, 2021. The contract will have an initial one-year term from May 17, 2021, to May 16, 2026, with four optional one-year renewal periods, and projects are initially capped at $2 million with 18,000 hours.

The solicitation does not specify specific set-aside designations for disadvantaged enterprises, but contractors must be registered as South Carolina vendors with a minimum two-year business history. The contract will be administered through TAPFIN as the Vendor Manager using the Beeline vendor management software platform, with a 2.45% administrative services fee deducted from all contractor payments. Contractors must maintain specific insurance coverage, including $1 million in commercial general liability, $1 million in auto liability, workers' compensation, and $5 million in information security/privacy insurance. The total contract will be cancelled upon reaching $100 million in cumulative invoices, with individual job orders from a single governmental unit to a single contractor capped at $5 million. Pricing is structured through a fixed hourly rate schedule covering 128 job title classifications across technical disciplines, with rates ranging from $46.96 per hour for entry-level network technicians to $131.25 per hour for senior systems architects. The contract prohibits staff augmentation services and is exclusively for professional software development services, with no guaranteed minimum work volume for contractors.