S.C. Code Ann. § 11-35-4870: Use of payments received by a supplying public procurement unit.

All payments from any public procurement unit or external procurement activity received by the Division of Procurement Services in connection with sponsoring or administering a cooperative purchase, must be deposited in the State Treasury in a special account and expended only for the costs of providing the goods and services, and such funds may be retained and expended for the same purposes.