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"We currupted the selection criteria fair and square! How dare such a currupt contract get awarded to anybody else." Signed your neighborhood indie bookstore;
by Danieru 6y ago
"We currupted the selection criteria fair and square! How dare such a currupt contract get awarded to anybody else."
Signed your neighborhood indie bookstore; Amazon.
- themacguffinman 6y agoIs there any evidence at all that Amazon initially corrupted the contract?
- HenryKissinger 6y agoAmazon's complaint actually is that Trump corrupted the acquisition process in favor of Microsoft.
- qzw 6y agoI thought Trump doesn’t like Microsoft anymore? Didn’t he want to block them from buying TikTok and would instead prefer Oracle as the acquirer? Anyway I can’t keep up. It’s all changing faster than middle school friendships.
- nickff 6y agoIt appears as though Amazon likely helped to write the requirements, such that they would be selected. If you write a strict and tailored set of requirements, you can basically select the contractor/product before you even put out the RFP (request for proposal); this is relatively common.
- DetroitThrow 6y agoSource? I've heard this claim several times but I've not seen it substantiated. The original poster was asking for evidence explicitly as well.
- nickff 6y agoTaibbi, Matt (25 February 2019). "This Battle of Billionaires Was Inevitable". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 25 February 2019. "This started as a lawsuit filed by would-be bid competitor Oracle, whose co-CEO, Safra Catz, is reportedly one of Trump's biggest supporters in Silicon Valley. The suit suggested Pentagon procurement officer Deap Ubhi's involvement in the JEDI negotiations constituted a conflict. Ubhi used to work for Amazon and in 2017 tweeted, "Once an Amazonian, always an Amazonian.""
- mikeyouse 6y agoTo be clear - He Tweeted that in response to Bezos opposing Trump's muslim ban.. it's much less nefarious in that context.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoHe then went back to work at AWS, same place he worked before his detour into government writing an AWS-biased RF.P
- tankenmate 6y agoIs there anything beyond the appearance of impropriety, is there anything technical in the RFP that strongly suggests either direct or indirect influence from AWS? (I ask this in all sincerity).
- wmf 6y agoThere are some requirements in the RFP, like RAM sizes and ruggedized hardware, that exactly matched AWS specs but not Azure (at the time).
- tankenmate 6y agoI'd be interested in the original source on the allegation that AWS influenced requirements in such a way that they were the front runner to be selected; but nonetheless it is what has been alleged, not as sure that it "appears" that way without an original source.