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Awarded to Microsoft last fall, JEDI has been held up in litigation for most of the past two years among a series of protests from Oracle and Amazon.Д¬orrection: Nov. The agencyвЂ™s actions highly contrast that of the Department of Defense, which has very publicly been working to acquire cloud services from a single provider for going on three years as part of the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract. It hasnвЂ™t publicly released contracting documents or awards announcements. The CIA hasВ kept mum about its plans and the status of its new cloud contracts.

We look forward toВ providing the intelligence community our latest unique and differentiated Azure cloud and productivity capabilities.вЂќ вЂњWe applaud the intelligence community in advancing its cloud strategy to the next phase in order to take advantage of the latest commercially available cloud technologies. вЂњWe look forward to putting our knowledge into the service of the Intelligence Community and their key national security partners.вЂќДЄnd Microsoft is вЂњeager to serve as an integral partner in supporting its overall mission,вЂќ a spokesperson said. вЂњOur position as a commercial enterprise open hybrid-cloud global leader has sharpened our expertise to help our clients seamlessly move to a multi-cloud ecosystem in compliance with cloud security standards,вЂќ he said. IBMвЂ™sВ Jay Bellissimo said his company is excited to work strategically with intel agencies to provide hybrid cloud support, something IBM is very excited for under a new administration. вЂњTogether, weвЂ™re building innovative solutions across all classification levels that deliver operational excellence and allow for missions to be performed faster and more securely.вЂќ вЂњWe are honored to continue to support the intelligence community as they expand their transformational use of cloud computing,вЂќ said an Amazon spokesperson. The winning companies Friday also began coming out of hiding to acknowledge their partnership. вЂњWe recognize too that over the past six or seven years, weвЂ™ve now gotten to a point in our enterprise so weвЂ™re ready not only to move to a different type of ecosystem, but the mission demands it - that we are ready to move to an environment where we can use best-athlete capabilities, having potentially more than one vendor that brings different strengths on things like and and different workloads and database management, all these kinds of different pieces going together to where, as an officer at one of the agencies, you can say my workload may run best in this cloud.вЂќ CIA also plans to award a separate integrator/management contract вЂњfor multi-cloud management to support the foundational cloud services acquired in the CSP acquisition,вЂќ per the early contracting documents.ДЇormer IC CIO John Sherman, now the principal deputy CIO in the Pentagon, earlier this year described to FedScoop the need for the move to a multi-cloud environment. TheВ Cloud Service Provider contract is just one part of C2E. вЂњWe are excited to work with the multiple industry partners awarded the Intelligence Community (IC) Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E) Cloud Service Provider (CSP) contract and look forward to utilizing, alongside our IC colleagues, the expanded cloud capabilities resulting from this diversified partnership,вЂќ a CIA spokesperson told FedScoop. The agency wouldnвЂ™t comment on the actual value of the contract. However, the new multi-cloud contract will have a 15-year period of performance and be worthВ вЂњtens of billionsвЂќ of dollars, according to earlier contracting documents.

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Those companies will vie for task orders under theВ Cloud Service Provider portion of the contract to provideВ productsВ such as infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and software-as-a-service, as well as other professional services to the 17 intelligence community agencies.Д¬2E is the highly anticipated follow-on cloud procurement to the similarly named Commercial Cloud Services (C2S), awarded to Amazon Web ServicesВ in 2013 for $600 million. The agency issued places on theВ indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity, multiple-award C2E contract to Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle.

The CIA has awarded part of its potentially multibillion-dollar Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E) contract to five of the largest cloud service providers.

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