Feds reviewed only one bid for Obamacare website design (Obama Campaign Contributor?)

Washington Examiner ^ | October 13, 2013 | RICHARD POLLOCK

[PJ-Comix]

Federal officials considered only one firm to design the Obamacare health insurance exchange website that has performed abysmally since its Oct. 1 debut.

Rather than open the contracting process to a competitive public solicitation with multiple bidders, officials in the Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid accepted a sole bidder, CGI Federal, the U.S. subsidiary of a Canadian company with an uneven record of IT pricing and contract performance.

CMS officials are tight-lipped about why CGI was chosen or how it happened. They also refuse to say if other firms competed with CGI, or if there was ever a public solicitation for building Healthcare.gov, the backbone of Obamacare’s problem-plagued web portal.

[PJ-Comix]

Was this ONE-BID contract a form of kickback? Did CGI contribute big bucks to the Obama campaign? And why did a CANADIAN, not American, company get the ONE-BID contract?

The MSM won't ask these questions but perhaps REAL journalists can investigate this matter.

[Red in Blue PA]

No Americans would touch it!

[high info voter]

It’s always the same for libtards.

[rdcbn]

Solyndra on steriods

[musicman]

"The MSM won't ask these questions
but perhaps REAL journalists
can investigate this matter."



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[Fzob]

I would like to see a List of bidders. I am willing to bet the bid list is a list of one.

[nascarnation]

Last week a FReeper said CGI is connected to the Clinton Crime Family. Perhaps the Chicago Mob didn’t have any computer resources available since they were working on Caliph Baraq’s re-election....

[what's up]

This contractor is also building Hawaii's site.

HI is the only state which still has nothing online.

[Regulator]

CMS officials are tight-lipped about why CGI was chosen

Sole source bid for a new, half billion dollar program?

Uh, not likely.

Payola, as in Congressional hearings-people-in-jail level.

What else is new from these gangbangers?

[tumblindice]

“Another phony scandal. Let’s move along people.” Jay Carney

Seriously, how about an audit and accounting?
That’s what adults would do, just saying. Feel me?
And then some stiff prison sentences if the American public was defrauded from over a half-billion tax dollars.

I know we’re taking a brief five year holiday from laws and strict stuff like that, again, just sayin’ ...

[Aliska]

It could be that this company worked on coding on the Canadian single payer system. They may have used code for the Canadian system, gutted it and used modules of code for what is needed now.

Then if they get their way and get single payer, they will have the coding for it.

Even if I'm wrong, there had to be some deal with this company. Secrecy would have been part of the package.

They used to have to provide justification for sole-source procurements plus they had to be Buy American unless they used more justification which was not a slam dunk back then. Obviously about anything goes now.

[Chode]

or in the immortal words of Dick Jones: I had a guarantee military sale with ED 209. Renovation program. Spare parts for 25 years. Who cares it worked or not?

[mowowie]

FOO

[Venturer]

LOL Do you really believe anyone in the media will investigate this./

I am not betting man but if I were I would place my bet on a campaign donations to Obama or the DNC.

[blueunicorn6]

The purpose of the Democrat party is to elect thieves into office so that they can loot the public treasuries.

[dagogo redux]

I’m shocked!

Shocked, I tell you!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Is this a surprise? Nope!

[willibeaux]

PJ! Having been a former contracting officer (CO), this smells like a phony sole-source procurement. If so then the HHS CO ought to be fired or at least receive a good @zz chewing.

[steve86]

Secrecy would have been part of the package.

I know it's not what you meant but the code itself is open to public inspection.

[zencycler]

Someone needs to look into this. I was reviewing some of the filings on EDGAR for CGI, wondering if some connection might be found with one of their investors.

One of them caught my eye - BMO Financial group, out of Chicago, Illinios. Wasn't this one of the firms that was also a major benefactor of TARP?

I smell a rat!