Quick Hits

*** The Supreme Court on Monday denied a bid by Oracle to appeal its protest of the now defunct Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement. The U.S. government argued that the lawsuit, objecting to the framing of certain requirements of the planned $10 billion JEDI project, was mooted when the Defense Department gave up on the program.

*** The Safer Federal Workforce Task Force at the White House released new guidance on Tuesday for how agencies should approach medical and religious exceptions to the vaccination mandate. The group recommends that agencies set an initial deadline for feds to notify employers if they intend to seek an exception. Feds who are granted exceptions will be required need to follow masking, distancing and testing guidelines for unvaccinated people. Agencies can reject accommodations requests, though, if they decide that "no safety protocol other than vaccination is adequate."

*** The Government Accountability Office denied a protest from Tata International on the much-challenged CIO-SP4 contract because they didn't accept the vendor's arguments that they could not supply information to support past performance requirements without violating non-disclosure agreements with customers. Washington Technology has more.