Amazon, Microsoft To Compete For Pentagon's $10 Billion JEDI Cloud, Contract Award Likely Mid-July

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The Department of Defense has determined Amazon [AMZN] Web Services and Microsoft [MSFT] are the two vendors capable of meeting the minimum requirements for the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing program, with a contract award now expected in mid-July, a Pentagon spokeswoman said Wednesday. The program update arrives following a series of protests and delays, including a DoD investigation that found no conflicts of interest related to JEDI acquisition but did point to potential ethical violations that have been referred to the department’s inspector general. “After evaluating all of the proposals received, the Department of Defense has made a competitive range determination for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud request for proposals, in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations. The two companies within the competitive range will participate further in the procurement process,” Elissa Smith, a DoD spokeswoman, told Defense Daily. Microsoft and AWS’ selection to move forward in the program effectively eliminates Oracle [ORCL] and IBM [IBM] from the competition, both of which previously filed protests related to JEDI (Defense Daily, Nov. 14 2018).