What you may not know is that the company that was given the contract (CGI Federal) is not even based in the United States. They are a U.S. subsidiary of a Canadian IT firm. In case you have never heard of CGI Federal, it doesn't have the best track record. The company was terminated by Ontario provincial government officials for repeatedly missing deadlines and failing to produce an online medical registry for diabetes sufferers and treatment providers.
To make matters even worse, the contract for Healthcare.gov was never put through a competitive public bidding process in order to consider multiple contracts. American IT firms were never given the opportunity to even bid on the contract. Instead it was simply handed over to a foreign company and no one will say why:
“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,” [Washington Examiner investigative reporter Richard] Pollock reports.
“Instead, it appears they used what amounts to a federal procurement system loophole to award the work to the Canadian firm,” Pollock said.CGI was on of 16 firms approved by HHS back in 2007 to be awarded "task orders" under "a little-known federal contracting system called ID/IQ, which is government jargon for 'Indefinite Delivery and Indefinite Quantity,'" so there's absolutely no reason why CMS shouldn't have considered anyone else, especially considering CGI's checkered past. But again, no one on either side is talking.
And we are suppose to believe that Obama cares one bit about American jobs when he hands $634 Million to a foreign company just to create a website?
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