More on the Website Contractors
The lead contractor on the dysfunctional website for the Affordable Care Act is filled with executives from a company that mishandled at least 20 other government IT projects, including a flawed effort to automate retirement benefits for millions of federal workers, documents and interviews show.
CG
I Federal, the main website developer, entered the U.S. government market a decade ago when its parent company purchased American Management Systems, a Fairfax County contractor that was coming off a series of troubled projects. CGI moved into AMS’s custom-made building off Interstate 66, changed the sign outside and kept the core of employees, who now populate the upper ranks of CGI Federal. (The Washington Post)
Typical government. Of course they chose a company that had already proven themselves unsuccessful.
It was probably a half price deal
Clearance special!
More like found in China Town
What else would you expect? People who advocate even “good” government are trying to make something that would otherwise would be unsuccessful, “successful”.
I understand their stock price is still high and they are richer than ever. Their financial success is not based on the quality of their work. Rather, it’s based on the quality of their political connections.
Ohhh…Burn!
unfortunately that is largely true, although there are plenty of people who worked hard to get where they are.
““They did not provide us one working piece of software after almost six years,’’ recalled Ed Buelow Jr., the state’s former revenue commissioner. “There were hundreds of errors. Nothing worked.’’ Mississippi and AMS ultimately agreed on a $185 million settlement.”
Oh fantastic.
What a disaster, that’s just crazy.
“They couldn’t fix the problems because they didn’t know how,’’
Sure sounds like the government
They’re not throwing enough money at the problem yet.
“He said that CGI’s overall government contracting work remains high quality and that the company “delivers 95 percent of its projects on time and on budget.’’”
Yeah, but what are the odds that the most important Government Program was that 5%? I don’t believe a word of it.