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October 31, 2019 By cs

Son of Pentagon chief works at company that bid for contract

Defense Secretary Mark Esper has removed himself from decision-making on a cloud computing contract potentially worth $10 billion, citing his son’s employment with one of the original contract bidders.

In a written statement last week, Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said Esper recused himself from decisions on the so-called JEDI contract “out of an abundance of caution to avoid any concerns regarding his impartiality.”

The Pentagon is in the final stages of determining the winner of the initial $1 million Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, contract, which could be worth as much as $10 billion over 10 years if all options are exercised.

Hoffman did not identify Esper’s son by name. His son Luke is identified on his Linked-In page as a “digital strategy consultant” at IBM, which was an original bidder for the JEDI contract.

IBM was dropped from the competition, along with Oracle, and both companies have complained that the contracting process is rigged in favor of Amazon Web Services Inc., a division of Amazon.
Keep reading this article at: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-industry/2019/10/son-of-pentagon-chief-works-at-company-that-bid-for-contract/

 

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: cloud, conflict of interest, DoD, JEDI, Pentagon, SecDef

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