JEDI Contract Won't Be Awarded Before July 19, U.S. Filing Says

Naomi Nix, Bloomberg News

Servers and hard drives stand inside pod one of International Business Machines Corp.'s (IBM) Softlayer data center in Dallas. , Photographer: Ben Torres/Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. government on Monday filed a status report in an Oracle lawsuit challenging the Defense Dept’s winner-take-all cloud computing contract, documents show.

After conferring with Oracle, the government proposes a new timeline to resolve the legal dispute, according to the filing
Oracle will file a supplemental complaint on or before April 26, 2019, the filing says
The parties are available for oral arguments in the case on July 8, 2019
Note: Defense Dept announced last week it narrowed the list of eligible contenders for the $10b cloud contract to Amazon.com and Microsoft
Note: Oracle’s lawsuit alleged the so-called JEDI cloud contract had been marred by conflicts, including by ties between at least two former Defense Dept officials and Amazon

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