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March 6, 2015 By AMK

Multiple companies protest $1.6 billion Pentagon contract

Several companies have filed bid protests over the Defense Information Systems Agency’s recent $1.6 billion Defense Departmentwide licensing agreement with VMware.

Since Feb. 19, Amazon Web Services, Citrix, Nutanix and Minburn Technology Group, a Microsoft reseller, have filed formal bid protests with the Government Accountability Office on the DISA joint enterprise license agreement with VMware, citing an overly broad agreement that stifles competition.

Based on the contracting language, the bid protesters also contend the contract re-up is an improper sole-source request for cloud services that would give VMware an unfair advantage competing for DOD’s growing cloud demand.

So many vendors responded to the Feb. 9 solicitation that the government requested additional time to respond to questions received Feb. 19, suggesting the feedback received was highly contentious.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.nextgov.com/cloud-computing/2015/02/multiple-companies-protest-16-billion-pentagon-cloud-contract/105813

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: bid protest, cloud, DISA, DoD, GAO, protest, solicitation

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