Oracle lobbying to scuttle Amazon's defense contract

Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by Cuddles, Jul 27, 2019.

  1. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    Already happened on Boeing vs Bombardier, & Boeing vs Airbus

    Exclusive: Inside the effort to turn Trump against Amazon's bid for a $10 billion contract

    (CNN)Tech giant Oracle's push to scuttle a bid by its rival Amazon to win a highly sought-after defense contract has reached President Donald Trump's desk -- a possible attempt to appeal to the President's well-known animosity toward the online retail giant and its founder, Jeff Bezos.

    White House officials in recent weeks have shown Trump a document that alleges a large conspiracy to award Amazon a 10-year, $10 billion contract to build the Pentagon's cloud computing network, according to three sources familiar with the matter. The document, obtained by CNN, is identical to one created by Oracle's top Washington lobbyist, Kenneth Glueck, an executive vice president with the company, Glueck tells CNN.
    The one-page document was presented to Trump along with other information in a meeting in the last week where the contract and Amazon's possible award were discussed, one of the sources said. It's unclear how the document made it to the White House.
    The document contains a flow chart titled "A Conspiracy to Create a Ten Year DoD Cloud Monopoly," and provides a visual representation of a narrative that Oracle has been pushing for months -- that a web of individuals inside and outside the Defense Department were greasing the wheels for Amazon to win a cloud computing contract known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI). Oracle's own bid did not make it to the final stage.
     
  2. dozu888

    dozu888

    this is nothing lol at least there was some bidding.... look at all the Halliburton no bid contracts first.
     
  3. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    Not nothing, Trump's already hinting at intervening
     
  4. ensemble

    ensemble

    Oracle may still have a chance if they can claim to be a minority woman-owned business.
     
  5. apdxyk

    apdxyk

    Larry Ellison as a pregnant Comanche woman could give Senator Warren a run for her money