Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Pentagon Official Involved In $10 Billion Contract Offered Job From Amazon

The Intercept: Amazon Offered Job to Pentagon Official Involved With $10 Billion Contract It Sought

In a federal lawsuit, the tech giant Oracle has provided new details to support its accusation that Amazon secretly negotiated a job offer with a then-Department of Defense official who helped shape the procurement process for a massive federal contract for which Amazon was a key bidder.

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft are now the two finalists to win the highly contested $10 billion contract for what is known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI. The deal, one of the largest federal contracts in U.S. history, would pay one company to provide cloud computing services in support of Defense Department operations around the world.

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WNU Editor: Talk about a conflict of interest.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

A $10bn corruption scandal and here is an easy prediction: no one will go to jail, not even close

Try getting out of a parking ticket - this will be harder than Amazon getting out of this. Laws are just for you and me.

Bob Huntley said...

Ditto.