DJ Amazon Move to Stay JEDI Contract Raises Stakes -- Market Talk
1043 ET - Amazon's motion to stay the Pentagon's JEDI cloud contract raises the stakes in the company's bid protest litigation. Rival Microsoft won the huge enterprise cloud computing contract, worth up to $10B over a decade, last year following criticism of Amazon's efforts to obtain the deal by President Trump and other bidders. Amazon says the decision was swayed by pressure from Trump, a charge that Pentagon officials have rejected. Following Amazon's bid protest, Defense Department officials initially agreed to limit performance of the contract into February, but not beyond that. That's why Amazon chose to file its motion late Wednesday. (john.mckinnon@wsj.com)
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January 23, 2020 10:43 ET (15:43 GMT)
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