Posted on 10/16/2013 4:23:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
CGI Federal is the Canadian IT contractor responsible for creating most of the ObamaCare website. Tuesday, after describing the site as a "complete train wreck," the Washington Post took an in-depth look at the company -- its origins, track record, and how it landed the ObamaCare contract. It is all worth a read, but one staffer told the Post that the working environment at CGI is so awful today that "People are getting sick, fainting in conference calls."
The healthcare.gov debacle has taken its toll on the working environment at CGI Federal's 10-story complex in Fairfax, Va., according to a staffer working on a related project who asked not to be named. "There's been a lot of agitation and anger, because CGI really prides itself on having family flexibility," he said, noting the firm's liberal telework policy. Instead, the Obamacare contract has sucked more and more staff off other projects, and people have been working around the clock to first get the site ready for Oct. 1, and then fix it when things started to go wrong. "There's a lot of frustration," the staffer said. "People are getting sick, fainting in conference calls."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Po’ babies. Give ‘em a pacifier to suck on.
Freaking criminals.
These people deserve their millions, and the billions
in pensions they will get, and the royalties,
ALL TO BE SHARED WITH CONGRESS. [/s]
I heard from an informed source that their maximum programmer hiring age is 12 and the kid must have a minimum of 300 hours playing GTA!
“People are getting sick....fainting on conference calls.” Hope they signed up for some of that free government health care!
(full disclosure: I've been through crappy product launches, and I do feel for those who take pride in their work)
Interesting story, and surprisingly negative considering the WaPo source.
Someone on here said one of the companies that CGI bought was intimately connected to the Clinton Crime Family.
They should be fainting. Bammy and his boys will soon be looking for scapegoats. This train wreck can’t be their fault. Noooosirrrreee.
Obamacare's first victims.
Folks, I’m telling you, I am NOT upset the GOP didn’t get the one year delay. I’m telling you, America is going to HATE OBAMACARE and the RATs own it !!!!
Obamacare+SSDI...a win-win situation! /s;)
Toni Townes-Whitley of CGI, also was a classmate of Michelle Obama from the Princeton Class of 1985.
http://209.157.64.200/focus/news/3078942/posts?page=23
I heard they passed out when they were told they might have to stay until 5:15
My guess is the company has incompetent managers. Bringing new people on to a project that is behind schedule and in a crisis doesn't mean higher productivity. Neither does longer hours.
Let’s see, their primary mission would seem to be family flexibility and telework policies. Now they are frustrated at all the negative pressure and some are even fainting during conference calls. People are actually being called in to work, doubtless placing great strain on social plans.
I think I can see at least part of the problem here. Of course, I’m coming from an old fashioned perspective where you had to actually produce a product that works at a competitive price.
Husseincare covers that.
I’m guessing the BP guys who were trying to figure out how to cap the blown-out well (Deepwater Horizon?) in the Gulf a few years ago were under a lot more stress.
Wasn’t CGI the contractors associated with “The Innocence of Muslims” fake video? There was a guy on YT that tied it together if anyone has it.
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.
Instead, it appears they used what amounts to a federal procurement system loophole to award the work to the Canadian firm.
CGI was one of 16 companies that had been qualified by HHS during President George W. Bush's second term to deliver, without public competition, a variety of hardware, software and communication products and services.
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CGI was a much smaller vendor when it was approved by HHS in 2007. With the approval, CGI became eligible for multiple awards without public notice and in circumvention of the normal competitive bidding procurement process.
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CGI is a relatively new company in the United States. Its Canadian executives grew their corporate U.S. presence through major acquisitions of U.S. companies.
The first acquisition came in 2004 when CGI purchased American Management Systems Inc. for $858 million in a cash tender offer that covered existing federal IT contracts in healthcare, financial services, and communications work.
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