Specifications include, but are not limited to: Please note: This is a Sole Source Notification. We at Ellucian appreciate the opportunity to serve the technology requirements of Piedmont Technical College and look forward to continuing and strengthening our technology relationship in the coming years. Ellucian does not maintain a service provider certification program, and Ellucian is the only authorized vendor to provide maintenance and support services for which it is the exclusive licensor of numerous software products for the higher education marketplace. These products, includes Ellucian Experience. The Ellucian Software is fully developed, is integrated, and is licensed and maintained exclusively by Ellucian. Ellucian protects its intellectual property interests by carefully safeguarding distribution of the Ellucian Software, in whole or in part. Licensees are required to execute a license agreement pursuant to which the users, at an institution level, agree to use Ellucian Software only for the purpose of conducting in-house, non-commercial computing operations and further agree to limit use of Ellucian Software to those employees with a need to know. The Ellucian Software is protected under the copyright laws of the United States and the trade secret laws of several states. Ellucian employs industry-standard measures, both legal and technical in nature, to protect the investment that licensees make in the Ellucian Software. Accordingly, Ellucian is also the only authorized provider of installation, customization, training and educational services for the Ellucian Software. We have no authorized services providers or distributors that provide the Ellucian-approved installation, customization, training and educational services in the United States.