Oracle has failed in its bid to protest against a $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract bidding process that the company—and many others—claim is designed for Amazon to win.
Oracle has been complaining about the bidding process for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud, or JEDI, for months. It and other bidders such as Google, which withdrew its bid last month, said the contract should be split between different providers rather than going to just one winner. The idea is that this benefits Amazon because Amazon already has big government cloud contracts, most notably a $600 million deal with the CIA.
Oracle filed a formal bid protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in August, complaining that the single-winner framing for the contract broke procurement rules. On Wednesday, the office denied Oracle’s protest.
