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complaint and supplemental motion for discovery were filed in
the U.S. Court of Federal Claims under seal, according to a
spokesman for Amazon Web Services, a division of the online
retail giant founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos.
The company did not explain the basis for its complaint.
The filings contain "proprietary information, trade secrets, and
confidential financial information" that could "cause either
party severe competitive harm," Amazon said in a court document
seeking a protective order.
"The record in this bid protest likely will contain similarly
sensitive information," it said.
Last week, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper rejected any
suggestion of bias in the Pentagon's decision to award Microsoft
the contract after Amazon announced plans to challenge it.
"We believe the facts will show they (DoD) ran a detailed,
thorough and fair process in determining the needs of the
warfighter were best met by Microsoft," Microsoft said in an
emailed statement.
Amazon had been considered a favorite for the Joint Enterprise
Defense Infrastructure Cloud (JEDI) contract, part of a broader
digital modernization project at the Pentagon, before software
developer Microsoft emerged as the surprise winner.
Amazon has previously said that politics got in the way of a
fair bidding process. Bezos, the chief executive officer of
Amazon and owner of the Washington Post, has been an outspoken
critic of U.S. President Donald Trump.
(Reporting by Sathvik N and Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru and
Jeffrey Dastin in San Francisco; Editing by Sandra Maler and
Muralikumar Anantharaman)
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