‘Amazon Amendment’ could put billions in US federal spending onto e-commerce giant’s platform


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 15 Nov 2017

FILE PHOTO: Employees sort packages at the Amazon distribution center warehouse in Saran, near Orleans, France, November 22, 2016. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer/File Photo

As Amazon expands its marketplace for businesses, it's on the verge of being handed the "Holy Grail" – to be platform of choice for the transactions that make up the federal government's US$53bil (RM222.11bil) procurement of commercial items, a new report said. 

This would be accomplished as a result of language buried in a version of the National Defence Authorisation Act that's been passed by the House and is now being wrangled over in the Senate, according to the report. 

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