IBM continues legal fight against AWS
October 17, 2013
Grazed from FierceGovernmentIT. Author: David Pererra.
Making good on its promise to contest an unfavorable Court of Federal Claims decision over its effort to have the CIA reconsider a lucrative contract award for intelligence community cloud computing to Amazon Web Services, IBM filed two requests for an injunction on Oct. 10.
Judge Thomas Wheeler issued an Oct. 8 order (.pdf) granting an AWS motion for judgment that vacated a Government Accountability Office June bid protest decision that found the CIA didn’t correctly compare IBM’s and AWS’s proposals. The GAO recommended the CIA reopen bid proposal evaluations, which the agency did. Wheeler’s order would make that process moot…
IBM filed with the Court of Federal Claims a motion to stay on Oct. 10; the motion is currently under seal. Court document filings show the last activity on the case to be a conference held on Oct. 16…
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