Oracle, recently disqualified from bidding for the Defense Department’s $10 billion cloud contract, is alleging that Amazon had some inside help during the bidding process. Oracle has filed suit claiming that a former high-level Defense Department employee named Deap Ubhi had designed the cloud contract to favor Amazon after the tech giant offered him a lucrative job.
Naomi Nix tells us more about the dustup between Oracle and Amazon in this report from Bloomberg:
Oracle’s latest court action comes weeks after the Pentagon announced it had eliminated Oracle and International Business Machines Corp. from the bidding because they didn’t meet the minimum criteria, leaving Amazon and Microsoft Corp. as the last remaining competitors.
The Pentagon, which announced the so-called JEDI competition in March of last year, doesn’t expect to award the contract before July 19.
Ubhi, who had worked at Amazon before joining the government, helped craft the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, procurement for weeks after accepting a job offer in October 2017 from Amazon Web Services, the company’s cloud unit, according to the lawsuit. Ubhi then made up an “elaborate lie” about an Amazon offer to buy his startup company, Tablehero, when he “belatedly” recused himself from working on the contract, the lawsuit alleges.
Oracle’s latest court action comes weeks after the Pentagon announced it had eliminated Oracle and International Business Machines Corp. from the bidding because they didn’t meet the minimum criteria, leaving Amazon and Microsoft Corp. as the last remaining competitors.
The Pentagon, which announced the so-called JEDI competition in March of last year, doesn’t expect to award the contract before July 19.
Ubhi, who had worked at Amazon before joining the government, helped craft the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, procurement for weeks after accepting a job offer in October 2017 from Amazon Web Services, the company’s cloud unit, according to the lawsuit. Ubhi then made up an “elaborate lie” about an Amazon offer to buy his startup company, Tablehero, when he “belatedly” recused himself from working on the contract, the lawsuit alleges.
