Hitachi Data Systems Corp. v. Leatherman

Finney, Justice:

Appellants, as members of the South Carolina Procurement Review Panel (Panel), appeal the circuit court’s ruling that, absent the formal protest of a Chief Procurement Officer’s prior decision, the Panel lacked jurisdiction to, sua sponte, conduct an administrative review, and its further holding that the Panel was without authority to conduct investigative hearings. We affirm.

In April, 1990, pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. § 11-35-510 (1986), the Division of General Services of the South Carolina Budget and Control Board solicited bids for a mainframe computer for the South…