TAA & DoDIN APL Cisco Networking for Nebraska

Under Nebraska Revised Statute 81-1117, the OCIO must approve any information management item before purchase, covering computer equipment, peripherals, software, maintenance, and professional services on IT projects statewide — a review layer that sits above the State Purchasing Bureau's standard solicitation process. Nebraska also recognizes contracts already competitively bid elsewhere, including NASPO ValuePoint agreements, under state statute, and Cisco is listed by name among the vendors participating in Nebraska's NASPO data communications contract, alongside an Alternate Contract Source through Carahsoft.

Offutt Air Force Base, headquarters of U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) and home to the 55th Wing and 557th Weather Wing, carries the legacy of the original Strategic Air Command and today runs global strike and nuclear deterrence missions that demand some of the most rigorously secured networking in the Department of Defense. The University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, with a budget exceeding a billion dollars and its independent clinical partner Nebraska Medicine operating two hospitals, forms a second major Nebraska buyer whose research and clinical networks scale well past a typical regional health system.