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Oracle Protesting DoD’s Single-Award Approach For $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Contract

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, August 8th, 2018

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Oracle [ORCL] has filed a pre-award protest challenging the Pentagon’s decision to stick to a single-award contract for its $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud project.The protest, submitted to the Government Accountability Office on Monday, arrives ahead of a Sept. 17 deadline to submit bids for the massive cloud computing effort and challenges the DoD’s decision to avoid a multi-cloud approach.“The technology industry is innovating around next generation cloud at an unprecedented pace and JEDI virtually assures DoD…

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