亚马逊抗议微软赢得价值100亿美元的五角大楼合同

Amazon is protesting the Pentagon’s decision to award a $10 billion cloud-computing contract to Microsoft, citing “unmistakable bias” in the process.

亚马逊抗议五角大楼将价值100亿美元的云计算合同授予微软的决定，称这一过程存在“明显的偏见”。

Amazon’s competitive bid for the “war cloud” project drew criticism from President Donald Trump and its business rivals. The project, formally called the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, pitted leading tech titans Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle and IBM against one another

亚马逊对“战争云”项目的竞争性投标招致了美国总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)及其商业竞争对手的批评。这个项目的正式名称是联合企业防御基础设施(Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure，简称JEDI)，微软、亚马逊(Amazon)、甲骨文(Oracle)和IBM等领先的技术巨头都参与了这个项目。

In a statement Thursday, Amazon said that “numerous aspects” of the bidding process involved “clear deficiencies, errors, and unmistakable bias.” It did not elaborate.

亚马逊在周四的一份声明中表示，竞标过程的“许多方面”存在“明显的缺陷、错误和明显的偏见”。声明没有详细说明。

Amazon added that “it’s important that these matters be examined and rectified.”

亚马逊补充说，“这些问题得到审查和纠正是很重要的。”

Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A Defense Department spokeswoman would only say that the Pentagon won’t speculate on potential litigation.

微软没有立即回应置评请求。美国国防部发言人只表示，五角大楼不会对可能的诉讼进行推测。

Amazon was long thought to be the front-runner in the competition for the huge military contract. Its Amazon Web Services division is far ahead of second-place Microsoft in cloud computing, and Amazon has experience handling highly classified government data.

长期以来，亚马逊一直被认为是这项巨额军事合同的领跑者。亚马逊的网络服务部门在云计算领域远远领先于排名第二的微软，亚马逊在处理高度机密的政府数据方面也有经验。

It survived earlier legal challenges after the Defense Department eliminated rival bidders Oracle and IBM and whittled the competition down to the two Seattle area tech giants before choosing Microsoft in late October.

早些时候，美国国防部淘汰了竞争对手甲骨文(Oracle)和IBM，并将竞争对手缩小至西雅图地区的两家科技巨头，之后微软在10月底选择了微软。

Amazon said it filed its protest in the US Court of Federal Claims, which deals with financial claims against the federal government.

亚马逊表示，它已向美国联邦索赔法院(US Court of Federal Claims)提出抗议。联邦索赔法院处理针对联邦政府的财务索赔。