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Canadian officials fired IT firm behind troubled Obamacare website

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WA Examiner

Canadian provincial health officials last year fired the parent company of CGI Federal, the prime contractor for the problem-plagued Obamacare health exchange websites, the Washington Examiner has learned.

CGI Federal’s parent company, Montreal-based CGI Group, was officially terminated in September 2012 by an Ontario government health agency after the firm missed three years of deadlines and failed to deliver the province’s flagship online medical registry.

The online registry was supposed to be up and running by June 2011.

Officials at the U.S. government’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded six technology contracts worth $87 million to CGI Federal for Obamacare website work, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

The CMS officials refused to say if federal officials knew of its parent company’s IT failure in Canada when awarding the six contracts.

CGI Federal built Obamacare’s Healthcare.gov, which went live Oct. 1 but has since experienced multiple technical problems, including crashes, refusal to load and sign-on, or to provide accurate information.

Obamacare requires all Americans to register for health care coverage no later than six months from Oct. 1. Officials in the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services, which manages Obamacare, declined to say how many people succeeded in registering through Healthcare.gov.

CGI Federal also is the prime contractor for state health exchange websites in Colorado, Vermont, Hawaii and Massachusetts. Three of those states also reported significant website glitches.

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» 10 Comments

  1. jsg

    October 12th, 2013

    Expensive & Inefficient. A progs wet dream. Gee guys, you’ve managed to screw everything up beyond recognition. Application approved!

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  2. Jack Daniels

    October 12th, 2013

    Surprised?

    I’m not.

    In 2004, Canada, under the Liberals, in an effort to upgrade our navy,(LMAO!) bought 4 submarines from Britain that were decommissioned in 1994 for a paltry $525 million US!

    En route to Halifax, one of them caught fire (HMCS Chicoutimi) and was pretty much rendered useless.

    Extra, extra, read all about it!!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Chicoutimi_(SSK_879)

    This is just as pathetic because they chose a Montreal based company simply to appease once again, the French.

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  3. Sarge

    October 12th, 2013

    Just like Obama it was never vetted.

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  4. Marq

    October 12th, 2013

    Why didn’t they use an AMerican company?

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  5. Boobie the Rocket Dog

    October 12th, 2013

    FUBAR, I believe.

    Also, what Marq said. Why not use a silicon valley firm? Can’t tell me Ofuckup had no friends there three years ago.

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  6. Joe

    October 12th, 2013

    Can’t get it out of my head that this cost us $634 million, and wondering how much went into Obama’s pocket.

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  7. bitterclinger

    October 12th, 2013

    Check Ann Barnhardt’s latest. She says it was MEANT to fail. However, I still want to know who that $600 million went to.

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  8. eternal cracker p

    October 12th, 2013

    Shit, that was only $634 million to get it “operational” by October 1st. 12 days into that, they are still working to get it operational PLUS they now have the associated cost of running and maintaining a live site.

    It’s already over a billion.

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  9. norman einstein

    October 12th, 2013

    “The CMS officials refused to say if federal officials knew of its parent company’s IT failure in Canada when awarding the six contracts.”
    Gee…what are the chances?

    This outfit is also getting megabuck contracts from other agencies:
    “Multiple contracts help bring in between $3 billion and $4 billion a year for the Canadian firm, which operates in 40 countries.
    The U.S. State Department, Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Defence are among CGI’s other clients in addition to the Department of Health and Human Services.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/obamacare-website-glitches-linked-to-canadian-it-firm-1.1958948

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  10. Hotlanta Mike

    October 12th, 2013

    Delays and cost overruns…the standard playbook for dhimmicrat corruption.

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