How a Competed Cloud Vehicle Stops Competing
DISA posted three JWCC exceptions to fair opportunity in twenty minutes on Thursday night, all of them to the same provider. Plus two Air Force ceiling increases eleven minutes apart, twenty Kansas grounds contracts folded into one task order, and four GAO decisions that gave protesters nothing.
Three justifications went up on SAM Thursday evening at 20:32, 20:35 and 20:51 Zulu. Same contracting office, same parent contract, same awardee.
Every one of them has its estimated value redacted, so the public record carries the decision and not the price.
The vehicle is not redacted. All three orders ride HC105023D0003, Microsoft's slice of the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability, one of four IDIQs DISA put in place in December 2022 precisely so cloud requirements would have four places to go.
Three Exceptions in Twenty Minutes
Hybrid Cloud Landing Zone 04, task order HC105026F0037, awarded Sept. 3 for the Corps of Engineers, cites FAR 16.507-6(b)(2): only one awardee capable, because the supplies or services are unique or highly specialized. One-year base, firm fixed price, issued directly to Microsoft.
CMRS Cloud, task order HC105026F0042, awarded Sept. 11 for DISA's own cyber portfolio, cites the same exception under justification number JA26-071. It hosts continuous monitoring ingest, the Endpoint Security Solutions and Innovations lab, and Microsoft Defender reporting collection across the department.
Cloud Renewal, task order HC105026F0036, awarded Sept. 17 for the DoW Inspector General, takes the other road: FAR 16.507-6(b)(3), logical follow-on, justification JA26-068. Its predecessor order HC105023F0023 was competed among all four providers in 2023, which is exactly what that exception requires.
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