No bid government contract?? An American tech company could have developed a working web site for less than a million dollars. A reasonable question is how much of that $640+ million we Americans paid to that Canadian company did the Adolf obozo get as kick back??
............No bid government contract?? An American tech company could have developed a working web site for less than a million dollars................
I guess this wasn’t one of them “shovel ready projects” that we wasted 800 billion $$ on, so Val, Mooch and Zer0 could outsource it to Canadian black friends.
However, now it is a “shovel ready project” as we can throw all the $600 million of code in a deep shit-hole, and shovel dirt over it!
My fellow programmers and I where I work estimated that with our standard corporatd profit margin, the whole site could have been done for $250K tops.
Without in any way attempting to defend CGI, I call bullshit on your comments.
CGI was one of at least 47 (mostly American) contractors working on the Obamacare site and databases. Their contract was for $93,700,000. (Still big enough for all sorts of corruption and kickbacks.)
You can access a complete list of the contractors, and the amounts of their contracts here:
http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/2013/aca-contractors/
BTW, another American company got a large chunk of cash from this boondoggle, even though they weren’t listed as a contractor. The whole database is built on an Oracle platform — and Oracle software does not come cheap.