Benzinga | Nov 19, 2021 02:31PM EST

DOD Sends Solicitations For JWCC Contract To AWS, Microsoft, Google, Oracle

* The U.S. Defense Department has issued formal solicitations to Amazon.com Inc's (NASDAQ: AMZN) Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT), Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google, and Oracle Corp (NYSE:ORCL) for its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract, the Federal News Network reports.

* The JWCC contract is the multibillion-dollar project replacing the " ill-fated" JEDI Cloud contract.

* The decision represents a change from DoD's initial plans for the contract after several months of market research.

* In July, when the DOD scrapped the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract, it only considered AWS and Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) as technically proficient at meeting their needs.

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* Price Action: MSFT shares traded higher by 0.50% at $343.02 on the last check Friday.