Posted on 01/22/2015 1:07:10 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Seven months after federal officials fired CGI Federal for its botched work on Obamacare website Healthcare.gov, the IRS awarded the same company a $4.5 million IT contract for its new Obamacare tax program.
CGI is a $10.5 billion Montreal-based company that has forever been etched into the public’s mind as the company behind the bungled Obamacare main website.
After facing a year of embarrassing failures, federal officials finally pulled the plug on the company and terminated CGI’s contract in January 2014.
Yet on Aug. 11, seven months later, IRS officials signed a new contract with CGI to provide “critical functions” and “management support” for its Obamacare tax program, according to the Federal Procurement Data System, a federal government procurement database.
The IRS contract is worth $4.46 million, according to the FPDS data. The contract expires Aug. 15, 2015.
Prior to terminating CGI’s contract, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told Congress, “I am as frustrated and angry as anyone with the flawed launch of HealthCare.gov.” She called the CGI-designed website a “debacle.”
A joint Senate Finance and Judiciary Committee staff report in June 2014 found that Turning Point Global Solutions, hired by HHS to review CGI’s performance on Healthcare.gov, reported they found 21,000 lines of defective software code inserted by CGI......
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Could Washington be any more BROKEN and CORRUPT?
I’m afraid to see just how dysfunctional it is, we only see the scum on top of the cesspit.
The bacon and eggs were fried and eaten long ago.
A “Bombshell” assumes one can still be shocked by the level of corruption this administration commits.
The president’s men, stung, angrily snapped that Boehner had “breached protocol.” Looks like Boehner needs to breach protocol on more than one front. Let’s gut the IRS, EPA, and build a wall of China on the border. The presidente acts like he’s the only one can rule by fiat. Get some.
Bonehead already funded the corruption.
If I recall right, lizard Queen Jarrett has family working in mid to upper level mgmt at CGI.
Sounds like someone is laundering money on the perception of actually doing work for payment. Some sort of political layering scheme...I wonder who the ultimate payee is???
Just a fantasy on my part. I guess only Obola can breach protocol.
I surmise there are cronies involved.
The Lemon Squeezer
At a bar in New York City the bartender was so sure that he was the strongest man around, that he offered a standing $1000 bet.
The bartender would squeeze a lemon until all the juice ran into a glass, and then hand the lemon to the patron.
Anyone who could squeeze two more drops of juice out of it, would win the money.
Over the years, many people had tried, weightlifters, longshoremen, etc., but nobody had ever been able to do it.
One day, a scrawny little fellow came into the bar,
wearing thick glasses and a polyester suit.He sat down, ordered a glass of beer, & started looking around the bar. After reading the sign on the wall about the lemon challenge, he said in a small voice:
“I was just reading your sign, and I’d like to try the bet.”
After the laughter had died down, the bartender said:
“Ok,....”
He grabbed a lemon and squeezed all the juice he could out of it ...
Then he handed the wrinkled remains of the rind to the little fellow.
But the crowd’s laughter turned to total silence....
as the man clenched his little fist around the lemon....
and six drops fell into the glass.
As the crowd cheered, the bartender paid the guy his $1000, and then asked:
“Do you mind if I ask what do you do for a living?
Are you a lumber jack, a weight-lifter, or what?”
The little fellow quietly replied:
“I work for Internal Revenue Service.”
Follow the money!....... where are the kickbacks going?????
Isn’t the owner of CGI a college friend of the First Wookie?
Yep, thanks for the reminder! And I was gonna say they got the contract as the gov’t is so big and ponderous one hand knows not what the other does. ;)
This looks like a good thing. Maybe they can screw it up beyond repair!
F U IRS!
I have friends that worked on the Healthcare.gov contract.
They tell horror stories. Constantly changing specifications. No testing. Everytime they TRIED to do things the correct way, the Feds over-rode their engineering decisions.
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