Opportunity Overview
The South Carolina Department of Education Captioning Services, Solicitation 5400030117, is an open statewide education accessibility procurement. SCDE is seeking human captioning, transcript, searchable metadata and live-captioning services for recorded webinars, training, promotional and informational media used across its stakeholder communications.
Deadline and Contract Term
The controlling solicitation requires online submission by October 12, 2026 at 11:00 AM. The solicitation does not label a timezone, so Atlas does not infer one. Questions were due September 8, 2026 at 10:00 AM. Award posting is scheduled for October 21, 2026. The anticipated contract is one initial year with four additional one-year renewal options, for a maximum potential term of five years, with an estimated start of November 3, 2026 and end of November 4, 2031.
Scope and Technical Requirements
SCDE states that it serves nearly 750,000 students and 60,000 educators across more than 1,200 schools statewide. The contractor must accept common digital and web video formats and secure file-transfer methods; provide human captioning at at least 99 percent accuracy; support English, Spanish, French, German, ASL and specified hybrid-language captioning; extract searchable metadata; provide editable and downloadable transcripts; complete captioning within 48 hours after transmission; provide usage reporting; and support live captioning.
All services must comply with ADA, Section 508 and CVAA standards and current FCC rules and best practices. SCDE will use 12,000 captioning minutes per year for evaluation purposes, although actual usage may increase or decrease. Pricing must be quoted per human-captioned minute and include all required languages and services.
Submission and Vendor Requirements
This is a competitive Invitation for Bid, not an applicant grant. Offers must be submitted online through the South Carolina procurement system. Vendor registration is mandatory. The offer must include a signed cover page and Page Two, the requested bid and qualification materials, the pricing schedule, applicable attachment material, and an insurance summary. If subcontractors will perform a material or critical portion of the work, they must be identified as required by the solicitation.
The contract requires commercial general liability coverage of at least $1,000,000 per occurrence, with aggregate limits as specified in the solicitation, plus South Carolina workers’ compensation and employer’s liability coverage of at least $1,000,000 per accident for bodily injury or disease. No grant-style match or cost-share requirement applies.
Funding / Contract Value
No maximum contract value or aggregate procurement ceiling is stated in the controlling solicitation. SCDE instead provides an evaluation quantity of 12,000 human-captioned minutes per year and requires unit pricing per minute.
Atlas Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score: 24/100. This is a legitimate South Carolina K-12 education procurement with statewide operational scope, but it is specialized accessibility and media-support work with limited strategic relevance to Dr. Miltie’s clinical technology capabilities.
N9+ Fit Score: 0/100. The Nonagon N9+ remote physical examination platform is not part of the published scope. The procurement is for captioning, transcription, metadata and accessibility services, not guided examinations, vitals, diagnostics or telehealth-enabled clinical encounters.
QC Healthcare Fit: 0/100. The published work does not involve outsourced clinical staffing or healthcare delivery.
Direct-vendor disposition: Atlas does not advance Dr. Miltie or QC Healthcare as a direct bidder unless legitimate captioning-service qualifications and required operational capabilities can be independently established. No applicant-outreach pathway applies because this is a direct state procurement.
Next Action
Qualified captioning vendors should review the complete solicitation, confirm South Carolina vendor registration and insurance requirements, monitor the official state procurement page for amendments, and submit a complete online offer before the controlling deadline.
Official sources: South Carolina SCEIS Solicitation 5400030117 and South Carolina Business Opportunities.