Expect to see the solicitation for the next iteration of the Pentagon’s main cloud-computing contract on Aug. 24.
The Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability contract is the Defense Department’s vehicle for buying cloud services from the main hyperscalers: Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft Azure and Oracle. The Defense Information Systems Agency announced the date as part of its monthly acquisition post.
The new version, called JWCC Unified Cloud Marketplace, will expands what DOD can buy through the vehicle.
Tier 1 will be for the hyperscalers. Tier 2 covers “everything-as-a-service” including software, platform, and non-hyperscale infrastructure. Tier 3 is reserved for what DISA is calling “Commercial innovators and small businesses”: emerging companies and small businesses.
DISA has not posted an estimated value for JWCC Unified Cloud Marketplace.
The current JWCC vehicle had a $9 billion ceiling. AWS has received the most task-order obligations, $526.5 million; followed by Microsoft, $221 million; Oracle, $76.9 million; and Google, $35.9 million, according to Deltak data
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