Obama administration awards another noncompetitive contract for healthcare.gov

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Washington Examiner:

Open government advocates and IT experts are slamming the administration’s decision to award without competition another multimillion-dollar contract for the troubled Obamacare website.

 

They say the administration’s refusal to solicit multiple bids not only might cause the government to overpay, but may trigger new technical headaches as they switch contractors in the middle of the Obamacare health care enrollment period, which ends March 31.

 

On Saturday, administration officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced they were firing CGI Federal as the designer and manager of the botched healthcare.gov and replacing the firm with Accenture, the world’s largest consulting firm.

 

The new contract, valued at $90 million, was given to Accenture as a non-competitive and sole-source contract, according to news sources.

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I'm sure a company headquartered in Chicago has connections to the decision makers in the White House.

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Five CMS contracts that CGI Federal still somehow holds

 

CGI Federal may have been fired from its role as contractor on the disastrous $678 million Obamacare enrollment website, but American taxpayers are not done paying millions of dollars to the disgraced company, courtesy of the Obama administration department that hired it to build HealthCare.Gov.

CGI Federal is the U.S. arm of the Canadian company CGI Group, and was formed in 2009 to bring CGI into the federal contracting business. Employing Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate and 2010 White House Christmas guest Toni T0wnes-Whitley as a top executive, CGI Federal is going to be enjoying its contracts with the Obama administration’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a division of Kathleen Sebelius Department of Heath and Human Services (HHS), for at least another year.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/15/five-cms-contracts-that-cgi-federal-still-somehow-holds/