Color me surprised - Obamacare website
From the
Washington Examiner:
Feds reviewed only one bid for Obamacare website design
Federal officials considered only one firm to design the Obamacare health insurance exchange website that has performed abysmally since its Oct. 1 debut.
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.
And this little gem:
In awarding the Healthcare.gov contract, CMS relied on a little-known federal contracting system called ID/IQ, which is government jargon for �Indefinite Delivery and Indefinite Quantity.�
Why would something like this ever be allowed. Do it right and do it on time or don't bother at all.
Much more at the site. The Obamacare bid was for $93 Million. A company like SAP or Amazon or Google could have brought it in for well under that, it would not have taken three years and it would have worked out of the box on the first day.
What is ironic is that the parent Canadian arm of this company failed miserably when developing Ontario's online medical registry for diabetes patients and treatment providers - that was bid at $46 Million and Ontario is refusing to pay after 14 months of delay.
Posted by DaveH at October 15, 2013 10:12 AM