A Federal judge has indicated that Amazon lawyers claim that the President of the United States steered the JEDI Defense contract approval from their company to rival company Microsoft as retribution will probably be sustained and that the contract be abridged will be the ruling…
Microsoft has been order to cease it’s work at this time…
As has often been the case during Trump’s rein?…
Federal judges seem to be the only brakes on Trump’s strong arm use of Presidential power…
Congress seems useless …..
Nor is Trump’s ‘Justice’ Dept…..
In a blow to Microsoft and the Defense Department, Campbell-Smith recently ordered the Pentagon to halt work on JEDI. In a lengthy opinion explaining her reasoning, she sided with Amazon’s contention that the Pentagon had made a mistake in how it evaluated prices for competing proposals from Amazon and Microsoft. (Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
She also concluded that the mistake is likely to materially harm Amazon, an important qualifier for government contract bid protests. And she rejected arguments raised earlier by Microsoft and the Defense Department that Amazon should have raised its concerns sooner.
Note…
Most Americans are unaware that Amazon does a sizeable amount of computer server business for the US Government…
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