TAA & DoDIN APL Cisco Networking for South Carolina

South Carolina's Office of State Procurement, part of the Procurement Services division, negotiates statewide term contracts and executes NASPO ValuePoint participating addenda that state agencies, institutions of higher education, and political subdivisions are all authorized to use. Local public procurement units participate on an opt-in basis: submitting an order and accepting delivery under a NASPO master agreement binds that entity to its terms, giving cities, counties, and school districts a straightforward on-ramp to pre-negotiated Cisco networking pricing without their own competitive solicitation.

The state's defense footprint is significant: Fort Jackson trains roughly half of all soldiers and sixty percent of all women entering the Army each year on more than 52,000 acres near Columbia; Shaw Air Force Base operates the Air Force's largest F-16 combat wing near Sumter; and the Charleston area's Joint Base Charleston combines Charleston Air Force Base with Naval Weapons Station Charleston, supporting over 90,000 personnel and hosting the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command. MUSC in Charleston and Prisma Health, the state's largest health system, add further scale to statewide network modernization demand.