{"id":17524,"date":"2021-04-19T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2021\/04\/19\/how-will-the-dods-next-multibillion-dollar-it-contract-fare-after-messy-jedi-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:08:17","slug":"how-will-the-dods-next-multibillion-dollar-it-contract-fare-after-messy-jedi-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/it-networks\/cloud\/2021\/04\/19\/how-will-the-dods-next-multibillion-dollar-it-contract-fare-after-messy-jedi-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"How will the DoD\u2019s next multibillion-dollar IT contract fare after messy JEDI deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Consider these two quotes about two contracts the Department of Defense says are key to modernizing networks and advancing its computing power:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe war fighter is absolutely waiting for this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is one of the crown jewels that we have as part of our IT reform.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first quote is how former U.S. Defense Department Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy described the department\u2019s need for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/it-networks\/2021\/01\/29\/pentagon-could-reassess-future-of-jedi-cloud-depending-on-court-action\/\" target=_blank>Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure<\/a> cloud contract in August 2019. More than a year and a half later, the enterprise cloud that was supposed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/govcon\/contracting\/2019\/10\/30\/so-what-problems-does-jedi-solve-really\/\" target=_blank>house data across all classification levels<\/a> hasn\u2019t been built despite a contract award in late 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second quote comes from one of Deasy\u2019s deputies about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/it-networks\/2020\/09\/08\/disa-releases-draft-solicitation-for-117-billion-it-contract\/\" target=_blank>Defense Enclave Services<\/a> contract, an IT services deal to create a common network for DoD offices that aren\u2019t under the military services, known as the fourth estate agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do the two contracts have in common? Officials are emphatic that they serve a critical needs for the department, resulting in flashy price tags awarded to a single company for each project. The JEDI cloud has a ceiling of $10 billion over 10 years, while the DES contract could be worth more than $11 billion over a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The JEDI contract attracted the major cloud providers, with Microsoft ultimately winning, but it has been tied up in court over accusations of political interference and evaluation errors. Likewise, the DES contract will attract major IT integrators. Could the department stumble into another boondoggle with the DES contract? Experts told C4ISRNET that any high-dollar procurements are likely to face protests, but they don\u2019t expect the say level of controversy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAny contract can be protested,\u201d said David Mihelcic, former chief technology officer of the Defense Information System Agency. \u201cIt seems like the trend these days [is] most large contracts are protestable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The JEDI cloud is meant to serve as an enterprise-wide cloud computing environment that will carry 80 percent of the department\u2019s systems in an effort to reduce stovepipes to ease access to data. The DES contract, meanwhile, contains cloud computing services, network management, IT infrastructure and help desk services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s a forcing mechanism to get all of the fourth estate agencies on a set of standard services,\u201d said Chris Cornillie, a federal technology market analyst at Bloomberg Government. \u201cIt\u2019s basically a way to get everyone on the same page, much in the same way that JEDI cloud was originally devised as a way to get all of the military services onto the same platform, enabling them to share data and leverage artificial intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Defense Enclave Services contract has been a much quieter process so far. The department released its final RFP in December without problem, a far cry from the JEDI cloud RFP that was twice<b> <\/b>protested as unfair after its release and later ended up in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The JEDI cloud further suffered in part because of the intrigue around involvement in the contract by President Donald Trump, accused by Amazon Web Services of meddling in the contract to steer the lucrative award away from AWS because of the former president\u2019s distaste for Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m certain you\u2019re not going to see that level of intrigue with this is DES competition,\u201d said Mihelcic, now a consultant at technology market insights firm DMMI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another key difference is that JEDI would have massive business implications for major cloud providers if a single vendor was able to demonstrate that it could take on databases hosted by a competitor, Cornillie said, but with DES, it\u2019s a \u201ctraditional competition among government contractors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also pointed out that DES will have several subcontracting opportunities, whereas with JEDI, the winner would keep the bulk of the cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s perhaps not a total loss for an integrator that doesn\u2019t win the prime spot\u201d on the DES contract, Cornillie said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alleged technical errors have been a thorn in the side of the department on cloud acquisition lately. A Court of Federal Claims judge halted work on the JEDI cloud based on AWS\u2019 accusations that the DoD technical evaluators incorrectly reviewed the company\u2019s proposal. In another $7 billion cloud contract, known as the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions cloud, the DoD twice accidentally released proprietary information to a competing company, delaying the award several months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To ensure another critical solution doesn\u2019t face similar fates, the department will have be meticulous through each stage of the contracting process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe losers (of the DES contract) will think long and hard about whether or not the evaluation was conducted fairly and equitably and may end up protesting that, but we\u2019re not going to see anywhere near this level of intrigue\u201d that came with JEDI, Mihelcic reiterated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A badly needed war-fighting cloud capability ran into delays. 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