Reuters reports that CGI Federal, the contractor behind the disaster that is the federal ObamaCare website, is out and another large contractor, Accenture, will take its place with a new $91 million contract. One expert in this area of federal procurement and IT told Reuters that Accenture is no better than CGI, “We’ll see how well they do,” He said, “but Accenture doesn’t have a strong reputation of doing this stuff successfully.”
“At the end of the day, you have a company here that turned in subpar and visibly high-profile work. I think that that’s a fireable offense,” said Clay Johnson, chief executive officer of the Department of Better Technology, and former Presidential Innovation Fellow who has pushed for procurement reforms.
But the government appears poised to replace CGI with another large contractor. The Washington Post, which first broke the news, reported that Accenture will get a year-long contract for the website worth about $90 million. …
Johnson called the news “disappointing” and pointed to examples of poorly managed Accenture contracts highlighted by the Project on Government Oversight, a watchdog group.
For example, the company was publicly faulted by the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (Calpers) for costly delays and other problems during a major IT overhaul, Johnson noted.
“We’ll see how well they do, but Accenture doesn’t have a strong reputation of doing this stuff successfully,” Johnson said.
President Obama has tried to blame the website’s problems on the federal government procurement system, but that don’t stop him from victimizing millions of American by placing them at the mercy of that procurement system through ObamaCare.
Obama not only cancelled the insurance of millions of Americans, he then forced many of them into a website that didn’t work and that still has a number of back end problems. And now it looks as though Obama’s solution to the botched website has been to find a new boss who looks just like the old boss.
Unless you want to count the non-renewal of CGI’s contract as a firing, President Obama has yet to fire anyone associated with the disastrous roll-out of ObamaCare.
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