{"id":42485,"date":"2021-10-05T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=10d607837a60d29442e49f62d51e79ef"},"modified":"2021-10-05T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T08:27:00","slug":"supreme-court-denies-oracle-appeal-over-jedi-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/supreme-court-denies-oracle-appeal-over-jedi-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court denies Oracle appeal over JEDI contract"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Danny Bradbury<\/a><\/span>
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The US Supreme Court has denied Oracle<\/a>‘s petition against the Pentagon’s vendor selection for the Joint Enterprise Defense<\/span> Infrastructure (JEDI) contract.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The petition<\/a>, filed in January 2021, followed the failure<\/a> of Oracle’s legal appeal in federal court. After Microsoft won the JEDI contract<\/a>, Oracle argued the awarding of the contract to a single source was unlawful according to Congressional restrictions on single-source awards.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nThe company also accused federal circuit courts of taking a hands-off approach when evaluating the complaint and said several Pentagon officials had conflicts of interest concerning Amazon<\/a>, which also bid on the project.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Federal contracting is rife with potential corruption, and nowhere is that truer than in defense<\/span> procurements,” its petition concluded. “Each year, billions of dollars of governmental contracts are tainted by the misconduct of agency personnel.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The rejection was a foregone conclusion given the Pentagon scrapped the $10bn project<\/a> following another protracted legal fight. Amazon challenged<\/a> the Microsoft win twice<\/a>, alleging political interference by then-president Donald Trump, who had a long-standing grudge against Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos<\/span>. The contract was crippled<\/a> after AWS<\/span> won its legal battle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Department of Defense<\/span> decided to divide the work on future cloud computing systems between multiple bidders. Changing technical needs played a large part in the decision to scrap the project, said Pentagon officials in July, citing new initiatives like the Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2), which will be a single network connecting sensors from all the military services.\u00a0<\/p>\n

JEDI’s successor is the Joint Warfighter<\/span> Cloud Capability (JWCC<\/span>), which will involve multiple cloud service providers. The Pentagon will consider both AWS<\/span> and Microsoft. It said these were the only two providers that could meet its requirements.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The federal circuit court had said that the original decision to award JEDI to a single vendor had not affected Oracle, which would not have been considered under a multi-vendor award.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Danny Bradbury<\/p>\n

5 Oct, 2021 <\/p>\n

The US Supreme Court has denied Oracle’s petition against the Pentagon’s vendor selection for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract.\u00a0
\nThe petition, filed in January 2021, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42486,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42485\/revisions\/42486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}