Maryland Broadband Cooperative, Incorporated

Maryland Broadband Cooperative, Incorporated is a tax-exempt, nonprofit telecommunications infrastructure specialist headquartered in Salisbury, Maryland, that has been registered in SAM.gov since July 2008. The organization specializes in managing complex fiber optic cable systems and network operations for federal facilities, particularly military installations. Maryland Broadband Cooperative brings substantial expertise in designing, maintaining, and operating secure telecommunications infrastructure that supports critical federal operations, with a primary focus on serving the U.S. Navy and other federal agencies requiring specialized network solutions.

Through federal contract awards, Maryland Broadband Cooperative has demonstrated specialized capabilities in fiber optics operations and maintenance services. The organization has received three prime federal contract awards from the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC), totaling approximately $440,929. The largest contract, awarded on May 24, 2022, is a $339,254 firm-fixed-price purchase order spanning a one-year base period with four one-year option periods for a total of five years, providing secure fiber optics operations and maintenance services for the subterranean and subaqueous fiber optic cable network connecting Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland to NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. This contract includes monitoring, maintaining, locating, and repairing the fiber optic infrastructure with a guaranteed 4-hour emergency response time and was awarded on a sole-source, lowest-price technically acceptable basis with no set-aside designation. A second contract awarded on August 1, 2025 valued at $69,825 covers operations and maintenance, locating services, and collocation services for the Naval Air Warfare Center with completion scheduled for June 12, 2026. A third purchase order from December 13, 2021, valued at $31,950, provided operations and maintenance services to the same federal agency. All three contracts represent no set-aside awards and reflect the organization's critical role in supporting Navy communications infrastructure.

Maryland Broadband Cooperative has received one prime federal grant award through the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) under the Appalachian Area Development program (CFDA 23.002). This $1,410,000 Project Grant was awarded on March 1, 2025, with a performance period extending through February 29, 2028, and is designated for community infrastructure development. The grant represents an expansion of Maryland Broadband Cooperative's mission beyond its core federal contract work supporting military installations into broader regional broadband access and telecommunications infrastructure initiatives within the Appalachian region. This funding suggests the organization is leveraging its technical expertise in fiber optic network management to enhance community-level broadband connectivity and infrastructure resilience across the Appalachian area, demonstrating the organization's commitment to extending critical telecommunications capabilities beyond federal facilities to underserved communities.