GAO axes IBM’s bid protest, teeing up a court battle over Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud effort | Washington Post

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"The Government Accountability Office has struck down a bid protest filed last month by the computing giant IBM, handing a victory to Defense Department officials who want to turn to a single provider for the Pentagon’s $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing network, known as JEDI.

The decision came just a few weeks after the GAO ruled against a similar challenge from Oracle, which subsequently took its case to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims earlier this week. In the decision on the IBM protest announced Tuesday, GAO said it would leave the issue to the courts, noting that there was little difference between the arguments made by the two companies."

GAO axes IBM’s bid protest, teeing up a court battle over Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud effort | Washington Post