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Microsoft on Thursday confirmed it is challenging a decision to award a multi-billion-dollar cloud computing contract to its rival Amazon.<\/p>\n

US media<\/a> reports said the contract valued at $10 billion is for modernizing storage of classified data at the National Security Agency (NSA).<\/p>\n

“Based on the decision we are filing an administrative protest via the Government Accountability Office,” Microsoft said in response to an AFP inquiry.<\/p>\n

“We are exercising our legal rights and will do so carefully and responsibly.”<\/p>\n

NSA spokesperson said that it “will respond to the protest in accordance with app<\/a>ropriate federal regulations,” while Amazon declined to comment.<\/p>\n

A post on the Government Accountability Office website showed that it is considering a protest filed by Microsoft in July concerning the NSA, but provided no details.<\/p>\n

The move came as payback of sorts for Amazon successfully protesting a different $10 billion cloud computing contract that had been awarded to Microsoft.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon in July scrapped the deal, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, sidestepping a bitter dispute between Amazon and Microsoft over allegations of political bias that swayed the bidding.<\/p>\n

Microsoft in late 2019 won the JEDI contract, sparking a challenge by Amazon on grounds that then president Donald Trump may have improperly influenced the outcome.<\/p>\n

Amazon alleged it was shut out of the deal because of what it called Trump’s vendetta against the company and its chief executive Jeff Bezos.\n <\/p>\n\n

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