1、CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i Amazons Protest of DoDs JEDI Cloud Computing Contract: A Legal Analysis February 19, 2020 In October 2019, after an approximately two-year competitive bidding procurement process, the Department of Defens
2、e (DoD) announced that it had awarded a Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud services contract to Microsoft Corporation. In November 2019, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), the only other remaining bidder on the contract, filed a protest with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (COFC) ch
3、allenging DoDs award of the JEDI contract. AWS filed its protest under seal but publicly released a redacted version the following month. AWS alleges that DoD committed “egregious,” “substantial and pervasive errors” in selecting Microsoft over Amazon based on the technical aspects of their proposal
4、s that, standing alone, warrant the courts reversal of the award. However, in addition to these merit-based arguments, AWS also argues that DoDs failure to evaluate appropriately the technical aspects of AWSs and Microsofts bids was due to the improper “intervention of President Trump, Commander in
