Oracle Loses Protest of Pentagon Cloud Bid Seen Favoring Amazon
Government Accountability Office dismissed Oracle’s challenge to the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud contract
• Oracle argued that the winner-take-all contest violates federal procurement standards and unfairly favors Amazon
• The decision deals a blow to Oracle’s push to expand its federal defense contracts
• It follows a months-long lobbying campaign by Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft to split the contract among several suppliers