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Re:It bid high and lost. Should Amazon be allowed a do-over ... by caseysoftware on Thursday April 16, 2020 @09:22PM (#22895341)
More precisely, it looks like Amazon hired the DOD guy who helped write the scope. Being involved in those pre-RFP discussions, understanding the reasoning, and secondary undocumented concerns would be immensely valuable.
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Re:It bid high and lost. Should Amazon be allowed a do-over ... by partiallypro on Thursday April 16, 2020 @09:26PM (#22895359)
And Bezos sits on the Pentagon defense innovation advisory board. Eric Schmidt is the chairman, but he's no longer with Google, and GCS is probably too young for the Pentagon for this sort of use case.
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