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April 22, 2020 By cs

Pentagon IG review finds DoD improperly disclosed JEDI information to AWS

The Defense Department improperly disclosed sensitive information about its JEDI Cloud contract decision to Amazon after the company lost out on the multibillion dollar award, according to a review of the hotly-contested procurement by the Pentagon’s inspector general.
Click on image above to download DoD IG’s report.

The findings — which also indicate DoD failed to redact Microsoft’s proprietary information in its disclosures to AWS — are part of a sweeping 313-page report the DoD IG released last week.

Overall, the review found that while two DoD officials committed ethical missteps as part of the contracting process, they likely did not have an impact on the department’s final decisions. The OIG also said the department’s acquisition processes for JEDI — including the decision to award the contract to a single vendor — were “reasonable” and “consistent with applicable law.”

On another key question: whether the White House inappropriately interfered with the procurement, OIG officials said they could not come to any definitive conclusions, because the Trump administration had asserted a “presidential communications privilege.”  In response, Pentagon lawyers instructed Defense officials not to talk with the IG about any discussions they may have had with the White House about JEDI.

Keep reading this article at: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2020/04/pentagon-ig-review-finds-dod-improperly-disclosed-jedi-information-to-aws/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: Amazon, award protest, AWS, bid protest, cloud, cloud computing, COFC, Court of Federal Claims, DoD, DOJ, JEDI, Justice Dept., Microsoft, national security, Pentagon, protest, rebid, restraining order

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