Cable & Wireless Panama S.A.

Cable & Wireless Panama S.A., a for-profit international telecommunications organization headquartered in Panamá, Panama, delivers local telecommunications infrastructure — cellular phone services, internet access, fixed telephone lines, and switchboard systems — to U.S. federal agencies operating in Panama as a prime contractor on full-and-open purchase orders. The vendor competes without set-asides across all awards; it has been registered in SAM.gov since 2007 and operates as the sole local telecommunications provider for U.S. government missions throughout the country.

Cable & Wireless Panama's customer base clusters tightly around three federal agencies. The Department of State Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs accounts for ten awards worth $825 thousand in combined potential value, anchoring the vendor's footprint with embassy and diplomatic communications infrastructure — NEC switchboard phone lines and telephone services supporting the U.S. Embassy in Panama City. The Smithsonian Institution places ten awards worth $293 thousand for mobile phone services and fixed telephone lines serving the Office of Information Technology and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) operations in Panama. The Department of the Army Special Operations Command (ASOC) holds five awards worth $181 thousand for cellular phone devices, internet services at forward operating bases (AOB TACFWD Corozal East, AOB-CCA in Meteti), and related voice and data services. Together, these three customers represent 65% of recent awards and 70% of combined potential value. Secondary customers include Army Southern Command (three awards, $80 thousand) for internet and cell phone services supporting the Security Force Assistance Brigade, and Customs and Border Protection (four awards, $48 thousand) for cell phone service renewal. Recent representative work includes a $127 thousand contract from ASOC for internet services at AOB TACFWD Corozal East (awarded September 2023, running through September 2028), an $81.7 thousand Smithsonian order for fixed telephone services to STRI operations (awarded February 2024, completing June 2026), and a $68.5 thousand Army Southern Command contract for internet and cell phone services supporting SFAB Panama (awarded December 2023, completing November 2028).

Cable & Wireless Panama holds four task orders under an Indefinite Delivery Contract (19PM0719D0001) issued by the Department of State, worth $286 thousand combined. Activity has moderated over the past five years — six awards in 2022 declining to two in 2026 — with only four awards totaling $49 thousand in combined potential value completing in the next twenty-four months and facing recompete. The vendor's work spans wired telecommunications carriers (eight awards), agents for wireless telecommunications services (six awards), and telecommunications resellers (six awards) under NAICS classifications, with the majority of awards falling under PSC It And Telecom – Telecommunications Network Management (eleven awards). Cable & Wireless Panama operates exclusively as a prime contractor; the source carries no subcontract relationships. The vendor's $2 million combined potential value across 49 prime awards reflects its role as a localized, single-country telecommunications vendor serving a stable but modest set of federal customers with routine communications services renewal.