Amazon to Protest Pentagon Contract Award to Microsoft
14 Novembre 2019 - 11:38PM
Dow Jones News
By John D. McKinnon
WASHINGTON -- Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday it would protest the
Pentagon's award of a massive cloud-computing contract to Microsoft
Corp. in October, throwing yet another wrench in the long-running
procurement battle.
Amazon had long been the favorite to win the Joint Enterprise
Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, contract, which is valued at up to
$10 billion over the next decade. The Department of Defense
investigated and cleared Amazon of conflict-of-interest
allegations, but nonetheless ruled in the end that Microsoft was
more qualified for the job.
The company's cloud unit, Amazon Web Services, said in a
statement that it was "uniquely experienced and qualified to
provide the critical technology the U.S. military needs."
"Numerous aspects of the JEDI evaluation process contained clear
deficiencies, errors, and unmistakable bias, and it's important
that these matters be examined and rectified," AWS said in the
statement.
The Pentagon and Microsoft couldn't immediately be reached for
comment.
Write to John D. McKinnon at john.mckinnon@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
November 14, 2019 17:23 ET (22:23 GMT)
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