In a presolicitation notice the department published on Aug. That clarification appeared to be at least one significant change to DoD’s previous intent. DoD still must negotiate separate indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts with each company, a process the department expects to finalize by the third quarter of Fiscal 2022.Īnd the fact that a company received a solicitation isn’t a guarantee that they will be awarded a contract, Defense officials told Federal News Network on Friday. First and foremost, our technologies were not ready to meet the various classification levels and other technical requirements necessary to compete.”įriday’s solicitations are not contract awards - at least not yet. “When the JEDI RFP was issued, Google Cloud was not in a position to bid. “If selected as one of the compliant vendors, we will proudly work with the DoD to help them modernize their operations following the process we have in place for working with our customers, including the processes we’ve developed around our AI Principles,” Thomas Kurian, Google Cloud’s CEO wrote in a Nov. Google said earlier this month that it would be interested in pursuing work under the JWCC contract, if DoD picked it for one of the directed solicitations. “We are committed to delivering the highest level of security, performance, and value in enterprise cloud applications and cloud infrastructure in support of DoD’s warfighter mission.” “Oracle is delighted to be included in the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability,” said Deborah Hellinger, a company spokeswoman. Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case earlier this year. Oracle filed numerous pre-award and post-award legal challenging its exclusion from JEDI, eventually taking the matter to the U.S. The decision to include Oracle was particularly noteworthy, as that firm had been a thorn in DoD’s side throughout most of the JEDI Cloud contracting process. In a statement, the company said it would “continue pursuing opportunities to support JWCC,” without elaborating.ĭoD Cloud Exchange: In a three-day event from March 22-24, Federal News Network will take a deep dive into what each of the military departments are really trying to achieve, and what they’ve accomplished thus far. It wasn’t immediately clear why IBM, the fifth provider DoD consulted, did not receive its own solicitation. John Sherman, DoD’s then-acting CIO said in July that he intended to engage in discussions with all five U.S.-based “hyperscale” cloud providers before the department made a final decision. We also collaborated with DoD stakeholders from the military services, combatant commands, principal staff assistants, defense agencies, and field activities to survey requirement owners about what they would want to see in an enterprise level cloud offering.” “We assessed each CSP’s service and capability offerings as they related to the department’s unfulfilled warfighting needs, enduring capability gaps, high-level JWCC requirements, and each CSP’s ability to meet the JWCC capability delivery schedule. “The DoD studied the commercial cloud market and assessed capability statements that were submitted by cloud service providers and any follow-up communications provided to the department,” Russell Goemaere, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement. In July, when it cancelled the JEDI contract - short for Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure - officials said they believed that only Amazon and Microsoft had the technical capabilities to meet their needs under JWCC. The decision followed several months of market research, and represented a change from DoD’s previous plans from its new multi-award approach. The Defense Department on Friday issued formal solicitations to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google and Oracle for its highly-anticipated Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) program, the multibillion dollar project intended to replace its ill-fated JEDI Cloud contract.