If anyone is looking for another reason to criticize the Obamacare website rollout, here it is.<\/p>\n
\u201cRather than open the contracting process to a competitive public solicitation with multiple bidders, officials in the Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 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,\u201d reports the Washington Examiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n An open, competitive process would have revealed that CGI was fired in 2011 by the Ontario government for failing to deliver on time \u201ca new online medical registry for diabetes patients and treatment providers.\u201d<\/p>\n In other words, CGI \u2013 the firm responsible for creating a health insurance portal to service 36 American states \u2013 couldn\u2019t deliver a much less complicated system for 1 Canadian province. The service was so bad that the Ontario government still refuses to pay any outstanding fees it owes to CGI.<\/p>\n Remember when liberals screamed bloody murder about the no-bid contracts awarded by the George W. Bush administration to defense contractors?<\/p>\n Well, it\u2019s time to mount their high horses again and demand accountability.<\/p>\n