Pentagon Reaffirms Microsoft’s JEDI Cloud Award After Review (1)

The Defense Department reaffirmed its decision to award Microsoft Corp. a $10 billion cloud-computing contract after a re-evaluation.

The department said in a statement Friday that it “determined that Microsoft’s proposal continues to represent the best value to the government.”

The Pentagon previously said it wanted to reconsider “certain aspects” of the procurement, including elements of the bidders’ price proposals and online marketplaces, after a legal challenge of the award by market leader Amazon.com Inc.

The contract, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, is valued at as much as $10 billion over a decade.

A Microsoft spokesperson ...