§ 2-196. Public access to procurement information.

(a)

Procurement information shall be a public record to the extent required by S.C. Code, Title 30, Chapter 3 (The Freedom of Information Act) with the exception that commercial or financial information obtained which is privileged and confidential need not be disclosed.

(b)

Privileged and confidential information is information in specific detail not customarily released to the general public, the release of which might cause harm to the competitive position of the party supplying the information.

(c)

Examples of this type of information would include:

(1)

Customer lists;

(2)

Design recommendations and identification of prospective problem areas under a request for proposal;

(3)

Design concepts, including methods and procedures;

(4)

Biographical data on key employees of the bidder. Evaluated documents predecisional in nature such as inter- or intradepartmental memoranda containing technical evaluations and recommendations are exempted so long as the contract award does not expressly adopt or incorporate the inter- or intradepartmental memoranda reflecting the predecisional deliberations.

(Ord. No. 2010-21, 12-6-10)