As someone who used to work at Microsoft, this amuses the heck out of me. So many people in my division (C+E) spent so long working on this ridiculous warmongering contract, and in the end it was all for nothing. Well, good.
“multi-vendor contract“ Microsoft will definitely be involved in the next contract when it comes to products such as this “all for nothing” doesn’t exist. What ever they were working on internally will work its way into the new program.