Amazon has vowed to continue its protests after the US Department of Defense (DoD) has reaffirmed that Microsoft has won the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, Cloud computing contract.
"The Department has completed its comprehensive re - evaluation of the JEDI Cloud proposals and determined that Microsoft's proposal continues to represent the best value to the government, " the DoD said in a statement on Friday.
Amazon's Cloud computing arm, called Amazon Web Services (AWS), said in a blog post that the DoD's re - evaluation is "nothing more than an attempt to validate a flawed, biased, and politically corrupted decision. "
After Microsoft was awarded the decade - long contract in October last year, AWS filed a bid protest directly to DoD, challenging the decision.
"Taking corrective action should have provided the DoD an opportunity to address the numerous material evaluation errors outlined in our protest, ensure a fair and level playing field, and ultimately, expedite the conclusion of litigation, " AWS said in a blog post on Friday.
"Unfortunately, the DoD rejected that opportunity, " AWS alleged.
After Amazon protested the original award, Microsoft said that it won the JEDI contract because the US Department of Defense found that it offered "significantly superior" technology at a better price.
"It's also important to point out that the DoD cited price as a major factor in the previous decision.
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