Please note: This is a Sole Source Notification.. 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: Youth Villages is the developer and sole provider of the proprietary integrated, intensive in-home parenting skills program, Intercept®. Agency performed an internet search and reviewed documentation from that provider that states The Intercept model is the property of Youth Villages, and Youth Villages is the exclusive purveyor of the Intercept model. The program model and contents of the online clinical portal known as Guide Tree® (which is central to the case conceptualization process utilized for ever case throughout the duration of treatment) are proprietary. Youth Villages claims copyright, trademark, and trade secret rights to these materials.
