Judge sides with Pentagon and Amazon in cloud bidding case
Posted Jul 12, 2019 01:05:32 PM.
WASHINGTON — A federal judge is dismissing allegations that bidding for a $10 billion cloud computing contract with the Pentagon was rigged to favour Amazon.
Friday’s ruling dismissing Oracle’s claims clears the Defence Department to award the contract to one of two finalists: Amazon or Microsoft.
Oracle and IBM were eliminated during an earlier round, but Oracle persisted with a legal challenge claiming conflicts of interest.
Court of Federal Claims Judge Eric Bruggink said Friday that Oracle can’t demonstrate favouritism because it didn’t meet the project’s bidding requirements to begin with. Bruggink also sided with a Pentagon contracting officer’s earlier finding that there were no conflicts affecting the bidding.
The Pentagon says the project is vital to national security. It wants to pick a vendor as soon as Aug. 23.
The Associated Press
