Supreme Court Won’t Revive Oracle JEDI Contract Challenge

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it won’t review Oracle America Inc.'s claim that the Department of Defense’s $10 billion cloud procurement known as JEDI was unreasonably restricted to one vendor and tainted by conflicts of interest.

Oracle argued in its review petition that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erroneously found that the DOD’s improper single source approach constituted “harmless error” that didn’t affect Oracle’s elimination from the competition.

Oracle also faulted the Federal Circuit for concluding that “criminal conflicts of interest” involving Amazon employees didn’t render JEDI unenforceable because they didn’t materially affect the procurement. ...