Posted on 10/15/2013 7:20:31 AM PDT by libstripper
Senior executives from CGI Federal -- the company that won the Obamacare website contract -- enjoyed high-level access to top Obama administration officials, according to White House visitors' logs.
CGI Federal is the U.S. subsidiary of CGI Group, the Canadian company based in Montreal that won the $93 million contract from the Department of Health and Human Services in December 2011 to build Healthcare.gov, the main Obamacare web site.
Prior to the official award, senior CGI executives met with top White House officials and attended a number of invitation-only addresses by President Obama.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
A Canadian Company...........Grrrrr
I thought the bill was north of $600 million?
Is this a case of Canadians doing the jobs Americans just won’t do?
Chicago on the Potomac...
Cronyism, incompetence cited in failure of healthcare.gov site
There will be a domino effect of loose lips.
Like that is news.....anyone surprised by that is a fool
Political payback for campaign donations
Just forwarded this article to Rush.
On that page, there is a pull-down menu, listing their offices worldwide. Funny thing, it doesn’t include their offices in muslim countries, like the one in Saudi Arabia. You have to choose “All locations” and it brings up a map with pushpins. Just an honest oversight, I’m sure.
Follow the money.
hope it makes it to his “stack of stuff”
Yep, right up there with Solyndra.
Interesting...
Didn’t CGI Federal get the web site from India for the Obamacare sign up?.
Cost over-run, I believe. Only an Obama admin crony could over-run budget by 600% and not get fired somewhere along the way.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3078942/posts
Indeed, here's the most damning part of that article:
The first indication of questions of CGI performance and pricing came in February 2010 when the firm protested a $230 million CMS contract award to Computer Sciences Corp. Inc.
In a sharp rebuff to CGI in November 2010, General Accountability Office acting counsel Linda H. Gibson denied the CGI protest.
In doing so, she noted that CSC’s bid was $148 million versus CGI’s bid of $258 million. When CMS modified the terms of its proposal, CSC was still substantially lower, coming in at $223 million versus CGI’s price tag of $395 million.
Worse, Gibson noted that at the time CMS officials had only rated some of CGI's previous services as “fair.”
“The record reflects,” Gibson wrote in her 2010 decision, “that CGI's positive ratings were somewhat tempered by the fact that [DELETED] had received 'fair' ratings on one of its relevant contracts and that CGI's performance had also been rated as "fair" on another contract, which CMS deemed relevant.” As the Examiner previously reported, CGI in Canada also suffered embarrassment in 2011 when it failed to deliver on time for Ontario province's flagship project a new online medical registry for diabetes patients and treatment providers.
Ontario government officials cancelled the $46.2 million contract after 14 months of delay in September 2012. Ontario officials currently refuse to pay any fees to CGI for the failed IT project.
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