The JEDI saga continues: Court denies motion to dismiss AWS protest of political interference
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(DOD / Lisa Ferdinando)
Apr 28, 2021 | FEDSCOOP
The Court of Federal Claims issued a sealed decision Wednesday denying a motion by the Department of Justice and Microsoft to dismiss Amazon’s protest of the Pentagon’s $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract.
While the decision to dismiss wasn’t made available to the public, Amazon confirmed the court’s denial.
Amazon has two main claims in its larger JEDI protest of Microsoft’s award: That “DOD consistently and repeatedly made prejudicial errors, at every step along the way, that systematically favored Microsoft,” and that this happened because of overt influence from President Trump and other high-level government officials, who wanted to do harm to Amazon.