The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Oracle’s appeal that it did not receive the Pentagon’s $ 10 billion cloud contract, which will take all of the Joint Infrastructure for Defense Infrastructure (JEDI).
On Monday, senior judges declined to hear those from the database giant case filed in January. At the time, the Department of Defense had not yet canceled its ten-year mega-IT deal, which was awarded to Microsoft in 2019. Oracle and Amazon Web Services protested and tried to overturn the decision by suing the federal government.
Oracle argues that it is unfair for the Department of Defense to award the contract to a sole proprietorship and that there are clear conflicts of interest in the procurement process, as AWS is actively trying to hire a government official to lead the negotiations.
Oracle’s case was referred to the U.S. Federal Court of Justice, which previously ruled that the business never had a good chance of winning the contract because it was unable to meet the “hav” requirement.[ing] at least three commercial data centers for cloud hosting in the United States, separated by at least 150 miles, along with various other security standards. “
However, Big Red refused to give up. He appealed his case to the Supreme Court. The US government told the judges that this should be the case rejected given that Oracle would not have won the contract anyway. However, ongoing legal disputes became meaningless when the Pentagon defective JEDI in July.
However, Oracle still felt that the case was worth considering, given that DoD had replaced the cloud project with the new Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract. The JWCC deal is limited to AWS and Microsoft only. We note that Oracle says it makes more than $ 28 billion a year in cloud revenue.
“Cases do not become controversial simply because a defendant issues a press release alleging that he has stopped his misconduct,” Oracle said. said in his appeal.
The Government argued that the Ministry of Defense had discussed the case by annulling JEDI, the public procurement contract which Oracle had challenged … Far from making it “absolutely clear” that the impugned violation would not be repeated, the Department of the entity acknowledges that the impugned violation will continue – and will continue to harm Oracle. “
However, all of the company’s protests against JEDI have been rejected now that the Supreme Court has rejected his request. Oracle declined to comment on the ruling. ®
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