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December 16, 2020
On Tuesday, Amazon Web Servicesâ (AWS) redacted amended complaint was filed in the Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative (JEDI) suit, which urged Judge Patricia E. Campbell-Smith of the Court of Federal Claims to toss the Department of Defenseâs JEDI contract with Microsoft after the re-evaluation re-awarded Microsoft the $10 billion contract. The original document was filed under seal in October.
In October 2019 Microsoft won the $10 billion Pentagon contract to move the Departmentâs data into a secure cloud infrastructure, after which AWS, who also placed a bid to win the contract, accused the government of bias and filed a complaint which was unsealed in December 2019. Meanwhile, in February AWS won a preliminary injunction, the Department of Defense (DoD) filed a voluntary remand, which AWS opposed. Additionally, in April, the DoDâs Inspector Generalâs Office concluded that the JEDI contract process was fair; Oracle lost its appeal in the litigation in September.