TAA & DoDIN APL Cisco Networking for Virginia

VITA is Virginia's central IT procurement authority, and use of its statewide contracts is mandatory for acquiring IT goods and services across executive-branch agencies and public higher education; VITA is also the sole entity authorized to establish E-Rate eligible services contracts on behalf of the Commonwealth. That centralization gives a Cisco buyer a clear route: Catalyst switching and Wi-Fi, Secure Firewall, and ISE deployments for state agencies and universities move through VITA's established contract catalog rather than independent solicitations, with CIO approval required for larger cooperative or sole-source buys.

Virginia's federal and defense presence is exceptional even by national standards — the Pentagon in Arlington, the world's largest naval station at Norfolk, Fort Belvoir (which employs more people than the Pentagon itself), Joint Base Langley-Eustis, and Marine Corps Base Quantico together make Virginia the second-largest military state by active-duty personnel. Add UVA Health's Level 1 trauma center in Charlottesville and VCU Health's 820-bed academic medical center in Richmond, and the state's networking demand spans hardened federal mission systems to large-scale clinical infrastructure needing Nexus data center switching and SD-WAN across distributed care sites.