<story><title>It bid high and lost. Should Amazon be allowed a do-over on JEDI?</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/04/15/dod-amazon-jedi-contract/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koheripbal</author><text>Amazon has put a LOT of money into DC.  From setting up an HQ2 in DC to Bezos personally purchasing the largest mansion in the city to host event for political power brokers.&lt;p&gt;It should be no surprise that he&amp;#x27;s pissed that that amount of investment isn&amp;#x27;t starting to pay dividends.</text></item><item><author>partiallypro</author><text>My take on this whole thing, is the Amazon basically wrote the entire scope...so they just thought they were going to win because only they would meet it (this was a bit of a scandal just a few months back.) They bid high, and then they lost. Now they are mad that their lobbying wasn&amp;#x27;t a 100% success, so they are suing. It&amp;#x27;s all so very Amazon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pnw_hazor</author><text>IBM and Oracle also protested the bidding&amp;#x2F;RFP process. Their protests were dismissed twice so far. Once by the agency and again by a judge. Oracle has appealed the judge&amp;#x27;s dismissal of their protest.&lt;p&gt;In contrast, Amazon&amp;#x27;s protest resulted in an injunction because the judge determined it was likely Amazon would prevail in trial.</text></comment>
<story><title>It bid high and lost. Should Amazon be allowed a do-over on JEDI?</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/04/15/dod-amazon-jedi-contract/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koheripbal</author><text>Amazon has put a LOT of money into DC.  From setting up an HQ2 in DC to Bezos personally purchasing the largest mansion in the city to host event for political power brokers.&lt;p&gt;It should be no surprise that he&amp;#x27;s pissed that that amount of investment isn&amp;#x27;t starting to pay dividends.</text></item><item><author>partiallypro</author><text>My take on this whole thing, is the Amazon basically wrote the entire scope...so they just thought they were going to win because only they would meet it (this was a bit of a scandal just a few months back.) They bid high, and then they lost. Now they are mad that their lobbying wasn&amp;#x27;t a 100% success, so they are suing. It&amp;#x27;s all so very Amazon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GCSAQCMIYI</author><text>Not to mention the newspaper.</text></comment>