Amazon was expected to file a lawsuit against the Pentagon’s decision to award a lucrative cloud computing contract to rival Microsoft.
A spokesperson for Amazon Web Services told Reuters on Friday that the suit was filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims under seal.
The suit contains “proprietary information, trade secrets, and confidential financial information” that could “cause either party severe competitive harm,” Amazon said.
“The record in this bid protest likely will contain similarly sensitive information,” it added.
Amazon had been widely viewed as the favorite to win the JEDI contract, which is just one part of a broader Defense Department project to modernize its digital capacities.
Amazon objected the Pentagon’s decision to go with Microsoft, a rival company that has a slightly lower data certification.
Amazon claims this happened because Jeff Bezos has been critical of President Trump.
“We believe the facts will show they (DoD) ran a detailed, thorough and fair process in determining the needs of the warfighter were best met by Microsoft,” Microsoft said in a statement to Reuters.
“We’ve had other contracts that have had major issues which were fought out in the public but none of which I’m aware where the president is alleged to have somehow tried to influence the procurement process,” Dave Drabkin, a former top procurement executive at the General Services Administration, told The Hill.
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