Trump’s beef with Jeff Bezos could give Amazon all the opening it needs to fight Microsoft on the $10 billion JEDI cloud deal
. But if Amazon can demonstrate the possibility that politics, not technology, were a driving factor in the decision, it could very well rain on Microsoft's parade.The first is to file a protest with the Government Accountability Office , the federal agency that provides auditing services for Congress.
"Given some of the president's past statements about Amazon and the recent revelations in the Snodgrass memoir about a plan [to] 'screw Bezos,' Amazon might decide they have a better chance in the Court of Federal Claims," Comilie told Business Insider,Steven Schooner, a professor at George Washington University specializing in government procurement law, said that the company could likely make a reasonable claim that political interference derailed the Pentagon's...
Still, winning a case on the basis of improper influence is difficult, Schooner said. Amazon would not only have to prove political pressure was applied to the process, but also that the pressure actually affected the outcome, he said.
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