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Amazon Seeks to Depose Trump, Esper in JEDI Bid Protest

The Washington Post

2.10.2020

Amazon Web Services is seeking to depose President Trump and Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper in a high-stakes protest over the Pentagon’s handling of a $10 billion cloud computing contract, court records show.

The motion filed Monday in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims significantly raises the stakes in a bitter procurement dispute over a long-awaited defense contract to create the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, known as JEDI. The contract would create a powerful, centralized computing system for use by the military and operated by a single commercial technology company.

The company will have a difficult time convincing the Court of Federal Claims, which hears lawsuits involving federal contracts, that it needs to depose Trump and Esper, said Franklin Turner, a government contracts attorney with the law firm McCarter & English.

“This is something that would be fought tooth and nail by the White House and Department of Justice as strongly as is legally possible,” Turner said. “And they have a lot of arrows to fire, because years and years of bid protest law have said ‘you have what you need in the agency’s record.’ ”

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