Why did the government hire a Canadian firm to build the Obamacare website? First Lady Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is a top executive at the company that earned the contract to build the failed Obamacare website. Toni Townes-Whitley, Princeton class of ’85, is senior vice president at CGI Federal, which earned the no-bid contract to build the $678 million Obamacare enrollment website at Healthcare.gov. CGI Federal is the U.S. arm of a Canadian company. Townes-Whitley and her Princeton classmate Michelle Obama are both members of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni. Toni Townes ’85 is a onetime policy analyst with the General Accounting Office and previously served in the Peace Corps in Gabon, West Africa. Her decision to return to work, as an African-American woman, after six years of raising kids was applauded by a Princeton alumni publication in 1998 George Schindler, the president for U.S. and Canada of the Canadian-based CGI Group, CGI Federal’s parent company, became an Obama 2012 campaign donor after his company gained the Obamacare website contract. Editors Note: the Canadian company was never given time to test it... And, this from the Canadian Free Press: Is healthcare.gov a smoke screen for CGI gun registry built in Canada? By Judi McLeod, Wednesday, October 23, 2013 Look out Americans! Obama may be giving the Canadian company behind healthcare.gov’s glitch-ridden website a pass for reasons other than you may think. CGI is famous in the U.S. as ObamaCare website builders, and infamous in Canada as the company that built the $2.7 billion plus busted gun registry. Make that the $2.7 billion plus Canadian LIBERAL Government gun registry for which the Canadian taxpayer is still paying through the nose some 20 years later. Don says: I have been involved with government contracting. CGI was awarded a no bid contract. Sometimes referred to as a sole source contract. Either way, no other company was allowed to bid on the contract. From my experience, there are two justifications for a no bib contract: Availability or Timeliness. Availability means that there is no other company that has the skills necessary to accomplish the required task. In this case that would mean that there is no US company that could build the ObamaCare website. Timeliness means that there is no other company with the skills that can accomplish the required task within the deadline. In this case that would mean that there is no US company that could have built the ObamaCare website within the last 3 years. What a slap in the face to the American workers and shunning of their technical skills. BTW: When I buy something that does not work, I demand a refund.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 21:47:35 +0000
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