TAA & DoDIN APL Cisco Networking for Washington

DES's Contracts & Procurement division administers Washington's statewide contracts and NASPO ValuePoint cooperative purchasing agreements, covering categories from data communications to cloud services and managed print. For a Cisco buyer, that means state agencies, K-12 districts, and local governments can order Catalyst switching, Secure Firewall, and wireless off an existing DES or NASPO ValuePoint contract number rather than building a solicitation from scratch, which shortens the path from budget approval to deployment.

Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma is the only Army power-projection platform west of the Rocky Mountains and one of the largest military installations by population in the country, while Naval Base Kitsap on the Kitsap Peninsula anchors the Navy's West Coast submarine fleet. NOAA's Western Regional Center in Seattle houses the agency's largest concentration of programs outside Washington, D.C. Combined with the University of Washington's academic medical network, that mix of Army logistics, Navy fleet operations, federal science infrastructure, and academic healthcare calls for Nexus-grade data center switching and SD-WAN linking geographically dispersed sites across the Puget Sound region.