JPMC Emergency Notice - JPMC Presidio Cisco

The state of Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) is seeking to enter into an emergency Joint Purchasing Master Contract (JPMC) with Presidio Networked Solutions Group, LLC to procure Cisco hardware, services, SmartNet maintenance, and licensing. This emergency contract is necessary to prevent serious disruption of critical state services that affect health, safety, or the collection of substantial state revenues. The JPMC will be available for use by governmental units and qualified not-for-profit organizations. The contract term is expected to run from December 30, 2021 to March 29, 2022 and has an estimated value of $4 million. The emergency is required because a solicitation for a replacement contract is currently underway but has not yet been awarded, and the existing contract will expire before the new one is in place. Without this emergency JPMC, DoIT and other state agencies that rely on it would have to procure Cisco products and services on an order-by-order emergency basis, losing the significant discounts provided under the existing contract.

The emergency JPMC contract will be funded through state appropriated funds and will be available for use by governmental units or qualified not-for-profit organizations in Illinois, including St. Clair County. The procurement includes a COVID-19 Protections clause that mandates certain safety protocols for contractors. Presidio is the incumbent vendor for these Cisco products and services. The procurement does not appear to include any set-aside designations or restrictions on the types of organizations that can respond.