Amazon Wins Preliminary Order Blocking $10B Cloud Contract Awarded to Microsoft
A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge on Thursday issued a sealed preliminary injunction, an early win for Amazon and its lawyers at Morrison & Foerster and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
February 13, 2020 at 03:03 PM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
Amazon.com Inc. won a preliminary order Thursday blocking the U.S. Department of Defense from moving forward with a $10 billion cloud-computing contract with rival Microsoft Corp., in a suit that confronts President Donald Trump's public animus toward Amazon and its chief executive Jeff Bezos.
Amazon sued the Defense Department last year in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, a specialized court that hears government contract cases and other claims seeking monetary damages against the United States. Amazon was among the unsuccessful bidders for the Pentagon's Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, contract.
Represented by Morrison & Foerster and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Amazon sought a preliminary injunction that would pause any movement by Microsoft to implement the terms of the contract. The Federal Claims court's preliminary injunction was issued under seal Thursday afternoon.
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