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Microsoft connected Thursday confirmed it is challenging a determination to grant a multi-billion-dollar unreality computing declaration to its rival Amazon.
US media reports said the declaration valued astatine $10 cardinal is for modernizing retention of classified information astatine the National Security Agency (NSA).
"Based connected the determination we are filing an administrative protestation via the Government Accountability Office," Microsoft said successful effect to an AFP inquiry.
"We are exercising our legal rights and volition bash truthful cautiously and responsibly."
NSA spokesperson said that it "will respond to the protestation successful accordance with due national regulations," portion Amazon declined to comment.
A station connected the Government Accountability Office website showed that it is considering a protestation filed by Microsoft successful July concerning the NSA, but provided nary details.
The determination came arsenic payback of sorts for Amazon successfully protesting a antithetic $10 cardinal unreality computing declaration that had been awarded to Microsoft.
The Pentagon successful July scrapped the deal, known arsenic the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, sidestepping a bitter quality betwixt Amazon and Microsoft implicit allegations of governmental bias that swayed the bidding.
Microsoft successful precocious 2019 won the JEDI contract, sparking a situation by Amazon connected grounds that past president Donald Trump whitethorn person improperly influenced the outcome.
Amazon alleged it was unopen retired of the woody due to the fact that of what it called Trump's vendetta against the institution and its main enforcement Jeff Bezos.
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