Amazon Web Services Inc.’s bid protest of the $10 billion cloud contract award for Microsoft Corp. will delay the contract’s implementation and could lead to the DoD rebidding the work. In the event of a court-ordered rebid, the DoD could change the terms of the request for the work, but that may not result in a new winner.
According to Franklin Turner, a co-leader of McCarter’s Government Contracts and Export Controls group, it is unusual for a US president to express “clear disdain” for a competitor to a contract, but the court challenge will hinge on whether the DoD executed the technical evaluation of the proposal correctly.
He added, “Anything else at this point is sort of extraneous.”