Canadian officials fired IT firm behind troubled Obamacare website

Washington Examiner ^ | 10-10-2013 | RICHARD POLLOCK

[sheikdetailfeather]

Canadian provincial health officials last year fired the parent company of CGI Federal, the prime contractor for the problem-plagued Obamacare health exchange websites, the Washington Examiner has learned.

CGI Federal’s parent company, Montreal-based CGI Group, was officially terminated in September 2012 by an Ontario government health agency after the firm missed three years of deadlines and failed to deliver the province’s flagship online medical registry.

The online registry was supposed to be up and running by June 2011.

Officials at the U.S. government's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded six technology contracts worth $87 million to CGI Federal for Obamacare website work, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

The CMS officials refused to say if federal officials knew of its parent company’s IT failure in Canada when awarding the six contracts.

CGI Federal built Obamacare’s Healthcare.gov, which went live Oct. 1 but has since experienced multiple technical problems, including crashes, refusal to load and sign-on, or to provide accurate information.

[gitmo]

The good news is the computer systems are the SIMPLEST part of the obamaCAIR legislation. Everything else is far more complex.

[Hieronymus]

I’m not sure why you put in (Ontario, no less) both because the firm is out of MONTREAL and because when it comes to incompetence and corruption, Quebec has Ontario beat hollow.

[ldish]

afraid you are right

[dennisw]

who got bribed (kickbacks) to hire these Canadian idiots?    Follow the money!!!!  Don't we have American idiots here who could have done just as bad a job?

[MrB]

I guarantee it was owned by a crony or a favored group.
That’s not even a question with this bunch.

We need to answer the left when they accuse those who oppose Obama as being racist.

We don’t oppose Obama because we’re racist,
we oppose Obama because HE IS.

[inpajamas]

They have since moved to the states and started a green energy corporation. No, not that I know of; but with Obama in office they may have if they thought about it.

[inpajamas]

"The human civilization has Jumped the Shark."

What's worse is that they they didn't make the jump. This is going to make "Jaws" look like Disney before it is over.

[Squawk 8888]

I can see why he made the point, because the company was involved in a massive ($1b) boondoggle here, and the current government is the most corrupt in our province’s history- the latest scandal was about how they blew at least $1.1 billion to help two members get elected.

[unixfox]

Follow the money trail. I bet it stinks to high heaven.

[Eagle of Liberty]

UGH! YEP! Caught that AFTER I posted, and yes, was also mistaking Ontario for Quebec! thanks for catching those. Screwed that part up all the way around.

[unixfox]

Meet the members of CGI’s management

Serge Godin
Founder and Executive Chairman of the Board

André Imbeau
Founder, Vice-Chairman of the Board and Corporate Secretary

Michael E. Roach
President and Chief Executive Officer

R. David Anderson
Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer

João Baptista
President, Nordics, Southern Europe and South America

Jean-Michel Baticle
President, France (including Luxembourg and Morocco)

Jame Cofran
Senior Vice-President and Chief Marketing Officer

Benoit Dubé
Executive Vice-President and Chief Legal Officer

Serge Dubrana
President, Central and Eastern Europe (including Netherlands, Germany and Belgium)

Julie Godin
Executive Vice-President, Global Human Resources and Strategic Planning

Lorne Gorber
Senior Vice-President, Global Communications and Investor Relations

Timothy Gregory
President, United Kingdom

Colin Holgate
President, Asia Pacific (including Australia, India, Philippines and the Middle East)

Eva Maglis
Executive Vice-President, Global Chief Information Officer

Douglas McCuaig
Executive Vice-President, Global Client Transformation Services

Luc Pinard
Executive Vice-President, Corporate Performance and Knowledge Management

Daniel Rocheleau
Executive Vice-President and Chief Business Engineering Officer

Claude Séguin
Senior Vice-President, Corporate Development and Strategic Investments

George D. Schindler
President, United States and Canada

[Java4Jay]

bump

[matt04]

So far. Watch them spend another $500 mil tying to fix it.

[VerySadAmerican]

The same cronies who had a hand in building obama’s campaign bus.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Really (about the bus)? Interesting, if true.

This is a much bigger deal... or mis-deal.

[VerySadAmerican]

It’s true.

[tenger]

Actually it was many companies involved. Here's a link to the Government Accounting Office report and the list of companies involved in the debacle. The contractors begin on page 35 I believe.
healthcare.gov website contractors