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Pentagon Says Cloud Contest Winner Only Guaranteed Two-Year Job

  • Spokeswoman says extensions aren’t automatic, ‘not for this’
  • Rivals say winner-take-all deal favors Amazon.com for 10 years
The Pentagon building
Photographer: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call Group

The eventual winner of the Pentagon’s two-year contract to provide extensive cloud services isn’t a lock to be awarded two extensions that would add eight more years, spokeswoman Dana White said.

“I want to separate fact from fiction -- what it is, and what it is not,” White told reporters at the Pentagon on Thursday “That means the initial contract award is only two years. It is not a 10-year contract.”