Amazon sued Microsoft due to a contract with a Pentagon for $ 10 billion

Amazon filed a lawsuit in Washington to challenge the decision to transfer Microsoft a contract for the creation of cloud technologies for the Pentagon, writes Bloomberg. The amount of the disputed contract is $ 10 billion. A week ago, he brought Bill Gates to the first place in the world ranking of the richest.

• For the contract, except Amazon and Microsoft, Oracle and IBM fought. Amazon was considered a favorite. But Donald Trump closely followed the deal. In July, he stated that he receives many complaints from Amazon competitors, who allegedly believe that the conditions of the competition favored the company Jeff Bezos, a leader in the field of cloud technologies. Trump has repeatedly attacked Bezos, whose business empire includes the criticizing President The Washington Post.
• As a result, at the end of October, the Pentagon gave the victory Microsoft. Amazon, which already supplies its technologies of the CIA and government bodies, called the decision incomprehensible. The company insists that it was accepted opaque. In mid -November, Amazon announced “critically important” for the country so that such state departments were distributed on the basis of objective factors, and competitive procedures were protected from political intervention.
• Microsoft has already stated that she wants to participate in the process, taking into account the fact that the trial directly concerns the interests of the company and can cause “significant harm” to its interests. This is not surprising: on the news about the victory of Microsoft quotes, 4%increased in the moment. This was enough for Bill Gates to increase to $ 110 billion. Amazon shares, on the contrary, fell, and Bezos with an assessment of a state of $ 108.7 billion lost to Gates first place in the world's richest rating according to Bloomberg.