The Department of Defense plans to streamline the contracting process and add more cloud service providers as it prepares for the next iteration of the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract, Federal News Network reported Wednesday.
Under the current JWCC contract, DOD has awarded over 65 task orders valued at more than $1 billion.
“$1 billion worth of task orders — it’s pretty powerful when a year and a half ago, people said we wouldn’t be able to even do the contract because of the issues that we had with [Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure ] and some other contracting means, but now we’re looking at JWCC Next,” said Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, director of DISA.
“What it’s going to bring is even faster commercial cloud capability, greater diversity where we can hope that we can have even more cloud service providers and potentially have an option of not having task orders competed, that we can have an [indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity] as well as task order competition,” added Skinner, a 2024 Wash100 awardee.
In December 2022, the Pentagon awarded four companies positions on the potential $9 billion JWCC contract.
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