{"id":22204,"date":"2019-10-28T19:07:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T19:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2019\/10\/28\/why-not-microsoft-a-look-at-the-jedi-contract\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:34:22","slug":"why-not-microsoft-a-look-at-the-jedi-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/editorial\/2019\/10\/28\/why-not-microsoft-a-look-at-the-jedi-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Why not Microsoft? A look at the JEDI contract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Make no mistake: IT contracts are largely commodity buys that are won and lost on price. That remains true even when a contract is valued at a whopping $10 billion and has been embroiled in controversy. And, yet, here we are: Conspiracy theories abound around the decision by the Department of Defense to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/home\/2019\/10\/26\/amazon-or-microsoft-dod-picks-a-winner-for-its-controversial-jedi-contract\/\" target=_blank>award to Microsoft<\/a> the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, contract. (The DoD made the announcement around close of business on a Friday; a clever habit of the Pentagon for its most contentious programs.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it is true that the actual decision itself \u2014 to give the award to Microsoft and not Amazon \u2014 may seem to be rooted, at least in part, in squabbling of recent months. We repeatedly heard how the odds always seemed stacked in Amazon\u2019s favor, spurring lawsuits and what some believed to be a coordinated smear campaign by Oracle. All the noise has succeeded in repeatedly delaying the program and causing Pentagon leadership to handle it with kid gloves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So then why Microsoft? Some have pointed to President Donald Trump\u2019s seeming disdain for Jeff Bezos properties \u2014 notably The Washington Post but by extension Amazon. Certainly his comments could pave the way for a protest. But driving the award decision? Even in this political environment, I can\u2019t believe such disregard for federal acquisition regulations would fly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But this much is indeed true: Amid all the legal and political wrangling around this contract, Microsoft did become a simpler choice. Perhaps strategically, the company stayed out of the fray \u2014 opting to move quietly along while other competitors led the mudslinging. Microsoft was, quite frankly, less controversial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, good behavior can\u2019t drive contract decisions any more than politics. But again, a JEDI award is at the heart an IT contract. It calls for capabilities of which Microsoft and Amazon are each perfectly capable of providing. Either company can perform the work. Both have provided secure cloud services to government agencies in the past. So all things being pretty equal, that differentiation typically doesn\u2019t comes from the solution itself, but rather from the price point. How thin is a company willing to go on its margins? What infrastructure is in place to support requirements? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While we don\u2019t necessarily have specific answers to those questions, we do know that Microsoft and Amazon are technology giants that can afford to invest as needed to meet requirements and remain competitive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, then, why not Microsoft? That argument won\u2019t spare the JEDI contract from being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/it-networks\/cloud\/2019\/08\/13\/its-official-dods-jedi-contract-is-being-reviewed-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">protested<\/a> necessarily \u2014 a near certainty for any large contract these days, even more so for one that brought with it so much baggage. Nor will it even promise that the award won\u2019t be overturned. Maybe Amazon succeeds in arguing a bias, or maybe any one of the onetime competitors convinces the Government Accountability Office that the procurement was flawed from the get-go. There\u2019s a convincing argument to be made there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But for now, I\u2019d argue again: Why not Microsoft?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conspiracy theories abound around the decision by the Pentagon to award to Microsoft the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":37737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":67,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[160,67,36,17,19],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2572],"class_list":["post-22204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-editorial","category-newsletters","category-opinion","category-pentagon"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"2N5Z5ECPB5E4JJLM4L44QRQTMI","arc_canonical_url":"\/opinions\/2019\/10\/28\/why-not-microsoft-a-look-at-the-jedi-contract\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why not Microsoft? 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