However, the DoD is asking for an additional 30 days to reach a decision. If allowed, the Pentagon would receive a new September 16 deadline. Specifically, there are concerns “resulting in multiple solicitation amendments, rounds of proposal revisions, and exchanges with the offerors’ that have led it to need more time.”

The JEDI war cloud contract is worth $10 billion to a winner. It will upgrade aging DoD systems onto new cloud services. It will give “enterprise-level, commercial IaaS (infrastructure as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service) to the Department and any mission partners for all Department business and mission operations,” the Pentagon says.

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