INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE - DATAWORK

The South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles intends to procure services from Dataworks Plus to establish a test system for facial recognition, enabling troubleshooting and new code development without negatively impacting the production facial recognition system. The test system will facilitate troubleshooting, new code development, and additional interfaces with other systems without disrupting the agency's credential processing services or negatively impacting the State Law Enforcement Division's (SLED) use of the facial recognition system. The estimated value of the procurement is $68,000. • The procurement is for software licenses and professional services to install and configure a test facial recognition system. • The test system must be the same as the production system to provide reasonable assurance that software developed and interfaced with the facial recognition system will work as expected in the production ecosystem. • Dataworks Plus is the sole source vendor, as they are the only ones who can provide the services for their system to create a test system.