Google has successfully defeated Microsoft in competing for the US Department of the Interior (DOI) contract worth $35 million to supply email and cloud apps.

The seven year contract which had originally placed Microsoft as the preferred vendor has been won by Google after a lawsuit claiming bias towards Microsoft. The Google proposal was $14 million less than the proposal offered by Microsoft according to the Wall Street Journal.

Microsoft have said: “Although we are disappointed by this award, we will engage with our partners and DoI to review and understand the reasons for this decision.”