
Oracle’s [ORCL] protest of the Pentagon’s $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract has been denied, with the Government Accountability Office ruling the department’s decision to go with a single-award approach complies with procurement standards. Ralph White, GAO’s managing associate general counsel for procurement law, announced the decision Thursday allowing DoD to move forward with JEDI which has faced pushback from Congress and industry over its strict requirements and potential for skewed competition toward only the largest cloud vendors.“GAO’s decision…