After years of hype and debate over the 10-year, $10-billion JEDI cloud contract negotiation process, AWS has reportedly won a similar-sized contract from the National Security Agency after a secret bidding process.
Nextgov reported Monday that Microsoft has already filed a bid protest over the award, which was finalized in July. AWS broke into government contracting through a 2013 deal with the CIA, which was thought to give it a leg up in the bidding for the JEDI contract.
After an extremely public back-and-forth process involving several enterprise tech vendors, however, Microsoft was awarded the JEDI contract only to see the Defense Department decide earlier this year to scrap the original single-vendor contract, put together by the Trump administration, in favor of a multivendor deal.