By: Paul Goodman
Carahsoft is serving as Mapbox’s Master Government Aggregator™, making the company’s cloud-native mapping platform available through Carahsoft’s GSA Schedule 70, NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) V contracts and the National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance (NCPA) cooperative purchasing contract in addition to the company’s reseller partners.
The Mapbox cloud-native mapping platform is available through Carahsoft’s GSA Schedule 70 GS-35F-0119Y, SEWP V contracts NNG15SC03B and NNG15SC27B, and NCPA cooperative purchasing contract. For more information, contact the Mapbox team at Carahsoft at (877) 722–8436 or Mapbox@carahsoft.com.
Our offering with Carahsoft is optimized for government developer teams who need a scalable, cloud-native mapping platform with 99.9 percent guaranteed uptime. Whether working online or on-premise, buying through Carahsoft now offers direct access to all mapping, search, and navigation for all web and mobile applications. The maps are all updated live from billions of sensors across the globe, helping the public sector support better mission performance. This provides the building blocks for developers to add mapping, search, and navigation capabilities into their digital experiences and applications.
In partnership with Carahsoft, Mapbox now provides or government customers:
- Thirty-minute response time to requests for quotes (RFQs)
- Simplified ordering procedures for quick turnaround times
- Ability to fulfill quote requirements and small business requirements through Carahsoft’s network of trusted reseller partners
- Proven reporting and tracking capabilities
- Streamlined renewals process, prorating and co-term systems
“Carahsoft has been providing geospatial solutions to the public sector for more than 14 years, and we are excited to add Mapbox’s platform to our portfolio for government development teams looking to improve their digital experiences and service delivery with maps, search and navigation data,” said Lacey Wean, Manager of the Geospatial team at Carahsoft. “Mapbox’s open-source approach provides an additional level of customization for agency developers to better match the platform to their specific mission needs. Carahsoft and our reseller partners look forward to working with Mapbox to transform how the public sector leverages location data to better inform and serve their citizens and end users.”
About Carahsoft: Mapbox partnered with Carahsoft because the company has proven experience providing public sector customers with quick and simple procurement. Carahsoft provides an extensive geospatial solutions portfolio through its GSA Schedule, SEWP, and state and local contracts. By partnering with manufacturers, resellers, integrators and consulting partners, Carahsoft matches GIS, mapping, UAS and imaging products with AI, machine learning, cloud and security technology to bring best-of-breed geospatial solutions to meet public sector customers’ mission needs.
“We are excited that the Mapbox platform can now be purchased by our government customers faster than ever before,” said Paul Goodman, Head of Sales at Mapbox. “It has never been easier to put the most powerful geospatial technology available into the hands of government customers, giving them the advantage that only accurate, timely live location data can provide.”
Maps feature data from Mapbox and OpenStreetMap and their data partners.
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