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DOD plans to release second draft solicitation for JEDI cloud
And DoD expects a fast-moving procurement. It released a draft solicitation to coincide with the industry day, with a two-week window for initial responses (due March 21), a final solicitation scheduled in May, and the IDIQ award in to be made in September.
DoD plans to have JEDI services online in fiscal 2019, with more advanced capabilities added in 2020.
The department hasn’t officially put a price on the contract, which analysts speculate could be as much as $10 billion, but DoD Chief Management Officer Jay Gibson, in a call with reporters after the event, did allow that, “It’s fair to say we anticipate that this will be a multibillion dollar procurement.”
One rumbling in the contractor community is that the JEDI solicitation is inclined toward favoring Amazon Web Services (AWS), the biggest player in cloud services.
AWS has a 10-year contract with the CIA for services to the Intelligence Community, is already authorized at Impact Level 5, and recently launched as Secret-level region open to government customers outside of the IC.
AWS is considered one of the favorites for the JEDI contract.
In a tangential development, after DoD recently awarded a fast-track $950 million contract to REAN Cloud, Oracle filed a protest casting aspersions on the secretive process behind the award and REAN’s ties to AWS. DoD this week did a quick about-face, cutting the value of that deal to $65 million and limiting its scope to the U.S. Transportation Command. . . "
DOD to clarify its cloud plans with industry day
The Government Accountability Office dismissed a bid protest filed in February against a $7 million sole-source cloud support contract related to the Defense Department’s JEDI Acquisition.
A bid protest filed against a $7 million cloud support contract for the Defense Department’s effort to move to an enterprisewide commercial cloud has been dismissed.The $7 million cloud support contract attracted attention in February when the department selected a little-known contractor, Eagle Harbor Solutions LLC, for such a high-profile award. The contract is to provide consulting support services to the Cloud Executive Steering Committee, which is playing a major role in the Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud acquisition.
A Nextgov investigation found the company, an Alaska Native-owned 8(a) small disadvantaged business, had only a single employee and little past performance in government according to government procurement records. The company later sent a statement to Nextgov stating it had a staff of five, and that its corporate structure allowed it to share certain staff with sister companies of its parent company, Koniag Inc.
The protest, lodged by Interoperability Clearinghouse on Feb. 5, alleged the Defense Department failed to conduct a reasonable responsibility determination of Eagle Harbor Solutions’ capabilities and resources in awarding it a sole-source contract to support the JEDI cloud acquisition.
The Government Accountability Office dismissed by the protest on March 12, deciding that Interoperability Clearinghouse, a not-for-profit entity based in Alexandria, Virginia, “is not an interested party to challenge this sole-source award to an Alaska Native Corporation under the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) program.”
While agencies do sometimes cease work on a contract during a bid protest, there is no indication the Defense Department slowed its work during the duration of the protest. Defense officials held an industry day event and released a draft request for proposals last week for its JEDI cloud acquisition, would experts estimate could be worth as much as $10 billion over 10 years.
The Defense Department did not respond to an immediate request for comment
Source: http://www.nextgov.com
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Mar 7, 2018 - Defense Digital Service Director Chris Lynch speak during the JEDI Cloud Industry Day in Arlington, Va. March 7, 2018. The unclassified event outlined the Defense Dept.'s acquisition plans for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (
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