TAA & DoDIN APL Cisco Networking for Connecticut

Connecticut's Department of Administrative Services, working with the State Contracting Standards Board, runs CTsource, the state's single electronic portal for executive branch, higher education, and quasi-public agency contracting opportunities. Where a specific state contract does not exist, agencies commonly turn to NASPO ValuePoint participating addenda, including cloud solutions and datacom-specific vehicles, both of which Connecticut has adopted, to buy Cisco infrastructure without a standalone competitive process.

Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton is home port to a fleet of attack submarines and a major submarine construction yard, supporting more than 70 tenant commands and tens of thousands of military and civilian personnel and their families, making it the anchor of Connecticut's federal footprint. On the civilian side, UConn Health's John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington and Yale New Haven Health's multi-hospital system are the state's dominant academic medical networks. Vendors serving either side of that split need Cisco Catalyst switching and Secure Firewall segmentation sized for very different environments: a hardened Navy installation versus a distributed academic hospital network.