Supreme Court of South Carolina August 10, 1992, 23698 (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.