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Amazon seeks order to block Microsoft's $10bn Pentagon project
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IANS | 14 Jan, 2020
Stunned at losing the prestigious $10 billion Pentagon Cloud project,
Amazon has sought 'preliminary injunction' from the court to temporarily
block Microsoft from starting work on the project.
According to a
CNN Business report citing a court filing on Tuesday, retail giant's
Cloud arm will seek a preliminary injunction to "prevent the issuance of
substantive task orders under the contract". Amazon's request will be
submitted by Jan. 24.
Microsoft is set to start its work on the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) Cloud contract from February 11.
"DoD's
substantial and pervasive errors are hard to understand and impossible
to assess separate and apart from the President's repeatedly expressed
determination to, in the words of the President himself, 'screw Amazon.'
Basic justice requires re-evaluation of proposal and a new award
decision," read the court filing.
Amazon last year filed a suit with the US Court of Federal Claims contesting the decision.
Meanwhile,
undeterred by Amazon's lawsuit, Microsoft is going the whole hog on
recruiting people for the project it won despite AWS being the
favourite.
According to Brad Smith, Microsoft's President and
chief legal officer, "we have if anything been moving even faster since
that contract was awarded".
Amazon alleged in its complaint --
filed against the US government's decision to award JEDI contract to the
"less competitive" Microsoft -- that Trump abused his position to put
"improper pressure" on decision-makers for personal gains and show his
hatred towards Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos who owns The Washington Post.
In
the formal protest unsealed at the US Court of Federal Claims, Amazon
said the US President "launched repeated public and behind-the-scenes
attacks" against the company in an effort to undermine its bid and hurt
its founder and CEO Bezos, "his perceived political enemy".
Microsoft, however, never responded directly to the AWS complaint.
The Department of Defense (DoD), however, said that the procurement process was conducted by seasoned procurement experts.
"The
department is confident in the JEDI award and remains focused on
getting this critical capability into the hands of our warfighters as
quickly and efficiently as possible," DoD said in a statement.
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