U.S. judge says Amazon likely to succeed on key argument in contract challenge

[jpak]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge said Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is likely to succeed on a key argument of its challenge to the U.S. Department of Defense’s decision to award cloud computing deal worth up to $10 billion to Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O)

The opinion by U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith was unsealed on Friday. On Feb. 13, she issued an order blocking work on the contract pending resolution of Amazon’s court challenge.

Amazon contends the contract was awarded to Microsoft because of improper influence by President Donald Trump.

The opinion did not mention Trump or address Amazon’s claims of improper influence, but instead focused on how the Pentagon assessed Microsoft’s data storage in one price scenario.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-pentagon/u-s-judge-says-amazon-likely-to-succeed-in-defense-cloud-contract-challenge-idUSKBN20U0QC

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[napi21]

1. I hope Amazon wins. I know there's a lot of DUers who dislike Amazon, and some who likely dislike

Microsoft too. I want Amazon to win to piss of DT!

[IronLionZion]

2. Bezos should use his billions to kick Trump's ass this election

Between Steyer, Bloomberg, Buffet, and Bezos, we should be able to do some damage.

[cstanleytech]

3. You would think Bezos would openly oppose the Republicans economic ideas which have been a disaster

for the majority of people though because if to many of the people have little to no money Amazon will die.