Posted on 12/27/2013 4:21:24 PM PST by ziravan
Many are already familiar with Obamacare’s front-page debut and subsequent debacle called Healthcare.gov. Its crashes, bugs, and general incompleteness are infamous and have been the butt of many jokes, excuses from administration officials, and complaints from consumers attempting to use it. With not many signs of improvement for the website, many have looked for a scapegoat to place blame. One possible scapegoat has been a Canadian company, CGI Group, who was awarded a $93.7 million contract to develop Healthcare.gov, but that hasn’t discouraged the state of Texas from continuing and expanding its existing relationship with CGI.
In August of this year, the Texas Railroad Commission awarded CGI a $13.9 million contract to modernize the commission’s information technology, including website redesign and developing web-based applications. Phase 1 of the contract will being in May of 2014. Railroad Commission Chairman Barry Smitherman praised the contract stating, ”This is an exciting time at the Railroad Commission as we can now move forward with the long-awaited update of our IT systems, which is vital for our staff to keep pace with the current energy boom we are experiencing statewide.”
Unfortunately, aside from the botched launch of Healthcare.gov (of which CGI is not completely to blame), CGI’s performance record has been questionable. CGI had its $46.2 million contract to build an electronic diabetes registry for eHealth Ontario cancelled. CGI also was awarded a $53 million contract to “construct and maintain” the state of Hawaii’s health insurance exchange, but the website was delayed due to many technological problems and required a re-launch...
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Sounds like the fake fraudulent solar energy scams of yester year tha bilked the Amercian tax payer out of trillions. Overnight shill companies low bid take the money and run
In the case of their healthcare.gov contracts, the tip of CGI's kickback iceberg is their hiring of politicians' relatives.
They will win many contracts, until caught.
This is worth following. There are plenty of good Texas companies that would do a better job and it would keep the money in our state.
I don’t understand this move at all.
/johnny
/johnny
“CGI Fed has its fingers in a lot of pies.”
You aren’t kidding, and it all goes back to Mooooochelle at Princeton:
http://www.standupamericaus.org/corrupt-ii/xxxxx-2/
“I don’t understand this move at all.”
It’s all right here on the G-search results page:
What’s even scarier is, according to this article, they are doing all the support for Texas’ Medicaid records. What happens if they “screw the duck” on that? Millions of welfare recipients will be PO’ed and show up at the polls voting Democrat. That could turn Texas blue.
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