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Google Sues US Gov't For Only Considering Microsoft
An anonymous reader writes "Late last week, Google sued the US government for putting out a Request For Quotation for the messaging needs of the Department of the Interior that specified only Microsoft solutions would be considered. Google apparently had spent plenty of time talking to DOI officials to understand their needs and make sure they had a solution ready to go — and were promised that there wasn't a deal already in place with Microsoft. And then the RFQ came out. Google protested, but the protest was dismissed, with the claim that Google was 'not an interested party.'"
It's not at all the same. In a no-bid contract, they just award the contract to Microsoft. Here they had a bid! It's just that one of the requirements is that the bidder be Microsoft! TOTALLY DIFFERENT.
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
It's one of those bureaucratic loopholes. Without the GSA schedule and number, you can be dismissed from any offering regardless of how much time you put in. Did they really not have one? Almost seems like a bad oversight.
If they had been using their "magic wifi gathering devices" they surely could have picked one up somewhere.
Sonofabitchwrongarticlesorryguys.
This is what happens when you have a monopoly like the Department of the Interior. I think it's about time one of us started a department to compete with them and keep them honest.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
It's pathetic to behold, and a wonder we still have a nation at all.
Actually a major portion of the Earth was destroyed some time ago and you've all been plugged into simulations coming from the international space station and the moon. You're not actually awake, but are plugged into an interface. Due to a writers' strike and shortages of tantalum and thorium, you may vanish from the simulation at any time. My condolences.
I don't particularly like Google as a company.
Compared to Microsoft!
Shhhh, if you are not careful the google rape vans will overhear you.