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Pentagon puts $10 billion JEDI contract on hold after Trump suggests it favored Amazon
Source: Reuters
BUSINESS NEWS AUGUST 1, 2019 / 6:20 PM / UPDATED 29 MINUTES AGO
Pentagon puts $10 billion JEDI contract on hold after Trump suggests it favored Amazon
Idrees Ali, Nandita Bose
3 MIN READ
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has decided to put on hold its decision to award a $10 billion cloud computing contract after President Donald Trump said his administration was examining Amazon.com Inc’s (AMZN.O) bid following complaints from other tech companies.
The contract, called the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud, or JEDI, is part of a broad modernization of the Pentagon’s information technology systems.
Oracle Corp (ORCL.N) lobbied aggressively and expressed concerns about the award process for the contract, including asking about the role of a former Amazon employee who worked on the project at the Defense Department but then recused himself, then later left the Defense Department and returned to Amazon Web Services.
Oracle and IBM Corp (IBM.N) have since been eliminated from the competition, leaving Amazon and Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) as finalists.
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Pentagon puts $10 billion JEDI contract on hold after Trump suggests it favored Amazon
Idrees Ali, Nandita Bose
3 MIN READ
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has decided to put on hold its decision to award a $10 billion cloud computing contract after President Donald Trump said his administration was examining Amazon.com Inc’s (AMZN.O) bid following complaints from other tech companies.
The contract, called the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud, or JEDI, is part of a broad modernization of the Pentagon’s information technology systems.
Oracle Corp (ORCL.N) lobbied aggressively and expressed concerns about the award process for the contract, including asking about the role of a former Amazon employee who worked on the project at the Defense Department but then recused himself, then later left the Defense Department and returned to Amazon Web Services.
Oracle and IBM Corp (IBM.N) have since been eliminated from the competition, leaving Amazon and Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) as finalists.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jedi/pentagon-puts-10-billion-jedi-contract-on-hold-after-trump-suggests-it-favored-amazon-idUSKCN1UR5UA
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