Microsoft managed to close a major agreement with the US Department of Defense (DoD from the Department of Defense) to provide software and services worth 1,76 billion dollars to space five years old.
The Pentagon he said on Friday when we got the deal, which states that Microsoft will provide business services to DoD, Coast Guard and various other secret services.
In a statement announcing the deal, the Pentagon explains that the support it bought from Microsoft includes the following:
The services, products and Microsoft support for software developers and product teams to leverage a variety of proprietary sources and source code. Support from Microsoft for tools, knowledge database, and custom changes to Microsoft source code when required.
The five-year Indefinite Delivery and Unlimited Quantity (IDIQ) contract is due to expire on January 10, 2024. This contract commits Microsoft to providing an unlimited amount of services during the period.
The contract allows DoD to pay to Microsoft payment orders, primarily from operational and maintenance funds.
Microsoft's win comes as the DoD continues to evaluate its bids Companies for a $10 billion contract, also known as JEDI or Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure. The Pentagon should select only one company within the first quarter of 2019.
Microsoft announced in October that it was well on its way to definitively endorsing the certification of Top Secret US classified information (6) in the first quarter of 2019.
Microsoft's competitor, the Amazon Web Services (AWS), is considered a pioneer of the JEDI contract. Google dropped out of the race because it didn't have the required government certifications.
Oracle submitted several letters of protest to Government Accountability last year Office (GAO) as it alleges that some parts of the contract were written in a way that favors AWS and that doing so is illegal because it favors a single vendor.
The GAO ruled that the Pentagon legally had the right to concede the contract to a vendor because it considers a basis of interest.
IBM has also criticized the "winner gets it all" method of the JEDI contract.
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