Obama White House Dumps IT Contractor Responsible for Health Care Website (Replacement Has Problems)

The Blaze ^ | January 10, 2014 | Becket Adams

[PJ-Comix]

The Obama administration is reportedly dumping the IT contractor responsible for building the glitch-riddled healthcare.gov website.

Officials familiar with the situation say CGI Federal’s inability to resolve the many problems that plague the online federal health care exchanges prompted federal officials to look elsewhere for IT help.

Obama administration officials are preparing to sign a 12-month contract valued at $90 million with a different contractor, Accenture, after CGI Federal’s contract expires in February, the Washington Post reported, citing “a person familiar with the matter.”

[chiefqc]

The mac daddy is as astute at this as they are with foreign policy and will again have the same success, wasted tax payers money with disastrous results.

[It Matters]

The Miller Act applies to construction contracts.

[null and void]

Slightly off topic ping…

[Sacajaweau]

Performance bond...of course...but they did perform...and in accordance with their contract as far as I know. I believe the White House let it go out prematurely and were told not to release it yet by the company.

[Nevadan]

Sounds a lot like the Solyndra and the rest of the green energy scandals: Give no bid contracts to your donors & friends who do not deliver what they are paid to do, allowing them to pocket the money (a portion of which will end up being donated back to Democrat coffers). So now Obama will give another contract to a different company that is sure to be in the same category of donor/friends(because Obama and the Democrats always do what they do. It really doesn't matter if the website is totally fixed because two things are fixed in stone: the MSM will continue to carry the water for Obama and the democrats, and Republicans will continue to do little more put forth mild squeaking complaints which will not be heeded (although their fund-raising letters will claim that are fighting to eliminate Obamacare - when they are actually doing absolutely nothing because they are wimps going along with the program so that the MSM won't say nasty things about them).

[MissMagnolia]

In a past life, I used to be a bank auditor. When I audited a certain department, they had a new program and it was terrible .... the program and the conversion/implementation. They received an “inadequate” ... i.e internal controls were inadequate ..... managers were sometimes fired with audit reports like this and it did not reflect well on performance appraisals so this result was a BFD (to reference a Joe Biden comment). When we presented it to the person in charge (an ‘old salt’ who spent a lot of time on the golf course schmoozing the ‘big boys’ in the organization), his comment was that software vendors “always sit on the edge of the bed and tell you how good it’s going to be”. This during a conference .... I wanted to fall off my chair laughing (but couldn’t in such a serious setting). The comments about Accenture reminded me of this situation.

[maddog55]

What they won’t tell you is they may have dumped CGI but odds are they paid them in full through the end of the contract anyway. Happens all the time and avoids a potential law suit.

[Ray76]

>> I believe the original contractor is a Michelle buddy

Yes that's true. They're "fellow travelers" as well

Michelle Obama's Princeton classmate Toni Townes-Whitley is senior VP for CGI Federal

Townes-Whitley and Michelle Obama hosted communists and pro-terrorist speaker at Princeton

[khelus]

Accenture is a multinational management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Incorporated headquarters are in Dublin, Republic of Ireland while operations headquarters are in Chicago, Illinois.

Accenture has more employees in India than any other country, with approximately 80,000 employees projected by August 2012.

Since September 1, 2009 the company has been incorporated in Ireland.

Accenture

[khelus]

Uh-Oh. Accenture seems to have a load of problems of its own as you can see HERE. An oatmeal cookie to the first person to find out how much Accenture has donated to the Democrats.
Out of the frying pan and ........

[BlatherNaut]

Sounds a lot like the Solyndra and the rest of the green energy scandals: Give no bid contracts to your donors & friends who do not deliver what they are paid to do, allowing them to pocket the money (a portion of which will end up being donated back to Democrat coffers).

Bingo. CGI has had its day. Time for a new pig to waddle over to the money trough.

[Nifster]

canary…. coal mine

[spawn44]

You know some crap is coming down the turnpike with this move. Michelle’s association. Mega kickbacks. Political paybacks. Under the table deals. The website would have cost about 15 to 20 million max if it had open bidding on the market. THE FOREIGNER and his DEMOCRATIC REGIME of commies spent over 700 million and counting and it still doesn’t work. Someone should be prosecuted for this. THE FOREIGNER, he knows nothing about it of course. Michelle, knows even less.

[immadashell]

I wonder why Republicans are silent . . .

Because Republicans are Democrat Lite.