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‘Flawed’ Contract Strategy, Potential Ethics Violations Not Enough To Impact DoD’s JEDI Cloud Procurement, Court Says

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, July 29th, 2019

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‘Flawed’ Contract Strategy, Potential Ethics Violations Not Enough To Impact DoD’s JEDI Cloud Procurement, Court Says

Two weeks after a federal court cleared the Pentagon against a legal challenge to its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud program, the full ruling unsealed on Friday has detailed the project’s “flawed” contract strategy and potential ethics violations. A federal claims court judge acknowledged instances of alleged conflicts of interest with Amazon Web Services [AMZN] and sided with the plaintiff, technology firm Oracle [ORCL], over its objection to the Pentagon’s justification for a single-award approach, but ultimately deemed the issues…

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