TAA & DoDIN APL Cisco Networking for Ohio

Ohio DAS centralizes procurement, IT delivery, and cooperative purchasing for the state, and its State Term Schedule (STS) contracts require a minimum of three competing quotes with pricing benchmarked against federal schedule rates or other competitively bid state and local consortium contracts. DAS also runs a cooperative purchasing program that extends state contracts to local governments, school districts, and other political subdivisions, giving an Ohio county IT office or district technology director a route to Cisco Catalyst switching and wireless pricing without originating a separate bid.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base sits alongside the Springfield Air National Guard Base and the Dayton VA Medical Center as part of a federal installation cluster hosting the Air Force Institute of Technology and the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, all of which require contractors to meet federal acquisition standards including TAA compliance on network hardware. Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center runs two full-service teaching hospitals plus specialty facilities handling well over a million outpatient visits a year, a scale where Cisco ISE-driven segmentation and Nexus data center switching matter for keeping clinical and research networks compliant and available across a sprawling academic health system.