It bid high and lost. Should Amazon be allowed a do-over on JEDI?
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It bid high and lost. Should Amazon be allowed a do-over on JEDI?
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Re: It bid high and lost. Should Amazon be allowed a do-over on JEDI?
#2My take on this whole thing, is the Amazon basically wrote the entire scope...so they just thought they were going to win because only they would meet it (this was a bit of a scandal just a few months back.) They bid high, and then they lost. Now they are mad that their lobbying wasn't a 100% success, so they are suing. It's all so very Amazon.
Re: It bid high and lost. Should Amazon be allowed a do-over on JEDI?
#3Good writeup. Looks like a very interesting case. The more I read about Amazon, the more I detest them.
Re: It bid high and lost. Should Amazon be allowed a do-over on JEDI?
#4> Even if you believe that Amazon may have started as the front runner, it’s clear our team worked hard to catch up and surpass them by investing in our technology and listening to the DoD.
Is MSFT actually ahead?
Re: It bid high and lost. Should Amazon be allowed a do-over on JEDI?
#5> Even if you believe that Amazon may have started as the front runner, it’s clear our team worked hard to catch up and surpass them by investing in our technology and listening to the DoD. Is MSFT actually ahead?
Define "ahead". Is AWS cutting edge? Maybe, but does your business need cutting edge? Likely not. I see an enormous shift in the market towards Azure from clients of all sizes, for a variety of reasons (cost, married to AD/O365/etc, not wanting to give a competitor [Amazon] dollars). Azure definitely has the momentum, it's their race to lose against AWS.
Disclaimer: Thoughts and opinions my own, not that of any employer past, current, or future.
Re: It bid high and lost. Should Amazon be allowed a do-over on JEDI?
#6> Even if you believe that Amazon may have started as the front runner, it’s clear our team worked hard to catch up and surpass them by investing in our technology and listening to the DoD. Is MSFT actually ahead?
Define "ahead". Is AWS cutting edge? Maybe, but does your business need cutting edge? Likely not. I see an enormous shift in the market towards Azure from clients of all sizes, for a variety of reasons (cost, married to AD/O365/etc, not wanting to give a competitor [Amazon] dollars). Azure definitely has the momentum, it's their race to lose against AWS. Disclaimer: Thoughts and opinions my own, not that of any emplo…
Microsoft can offer fully-integrated solutions with their already incredibly popular software. So that's a distinct advantage.
Re: It bid high and lost. Should Amazon be allowed a do-over on JEDI?
#7https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/15/pentagon-amazon-tru...
> The Pentagon’s inspector general “could not definitively determine” whether the White House influenced the procurement process for a major cloud computing contract because senior Defense Department officials were barred from answering questions on the subject during interviews, according to a 313-page report released on Wednesday.
Re: It bid high and lost. Should Amazon be allowed a do-over on JEDI?
#8> Even if you believe that Amazon may have started as the front runner, it’s clear our team worked hard to catch up and surpass them by investing in our technology and listening to the DoD. Is MSFT actually ahead?
Define "ahead". Is AWS cutting edge? Maybe, but does your business need cutting edge? Likely not. I see an enormous shift in the market towards Azure from clients of all sizes, for a variety of reasons (cost, married to AD/O365/etc, not wanting to give a competitor [Amazon] dollars). Azure definitely has the momentum, it's their race to lose against AWS. Disclaimer: Thoughts and opinions my own, not that of any emplo…
This was immediately after they mentioned 95% of Fortune 500, etc. so I assumed market size.
But, maybe that was the intention without giving any details.
We’ll never know until office is separated out in MSFT reporting I guess.
Re: It bid high and lost. Should Amazon be allowed a do-over on JEDI?
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Define "ahead". Is AWS cutting edge? Maybe, but does your business need cutting edge? Likely not. I see an enormous shift in the market towards Azure from clients of all sizes, for a variety of reasons (cost, married to AD/O365/etc, not wanting to give a competitor [Amazon] dollars). Azure definitely has the momentum, it's their race to lose against AWS. Disclaimer: Thoughts and opinions my own, not that of any emplo…
Microsoft can offer fully-integrated solutions with their already incredibly popular software. So that's a distinct advantage.
Azure is less friendly as a technology practitioner (compared to working with AWS), but I fully appreciate the value you describe. Does AWS have Active Directory as a first class citizen? Office 365? Outlook/Exchange? No.
Re: It bid high and lost. Should Amazon be allowed a do-over on JEDI?
#10I get the feeling that unless Amazon finds some integrity they will not last long as a company. If you read Blind, they're the company that everyone loves to hate - even their own employees.