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(961 posts)Should have never hired them. Makes it look like you didn't know what you were doing.
2naSalit
(86,580 posts)thanks to our useless media cabal is that the Procurement Act demands that certain contractors are the only ones who can be enlisted to do this kind of work and what it actually boils down to is who haw the biggest lawyers who can win lawsuits when the insiders shootout takes place. So the admin. was basically forced to use them or some other contractor like them. (Thank W for that BS).
Only after they have failed can the administration enlist others to fix the mess that was made. The other things to note are that it has been revealed that this contractor was a rightwing fav along with the web site that is spreading with code to jam the web site.
Those are points that need to go viral along with the fact that the web site functions better now and the problem is more than 50% corrected. But that jamming thing is still out there.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)That cancer is called procurement and its primarily a culture driven cancer one that tries to mitigate so much risk that it all but ensures it. Its one that allowed for only a handful of companies like CGI Federal to not only build disasters like this, but to keep building more and more failures without any accountability to the ultimate client: us. Take a look at CGIs website, and the industries they serve: financial services, oil and gas, public utilities, insurance. Have you had a positive user experience in any of those industries?
The cancer starts with fear. Contracting officers people inside of the government in charge of selecting who gets to do what work are afraid of their buys being contested by people who didnt get selected. Theyre also afraid of things going wrong down the line inside of a procurement, so they select vendors with a lot of federal experience to do the work. Over time, those vendors have been consolidated into pre-approved lists like GSAs Alliant schedule. Then, for risk mitigations sake, they end up being the only ones allowed to compete for bids.This results in a culturally accepted idea that cost implies quality. To ensure no disasters happen, throw lots of money at it. And when things go terribly wrong, throw more money at the same people who caused the problem to fix the problem. While this assumption may work well with commodities (want to ensure that you get lots of high-quality gravel? Buy a lot more gravel than you need, then throw out the bad gravel) the evidence points to the contrary with large IT purchases: they usually fail.
On top of this culture of fear? 6,500 pages of regulation, cumbersome business registration processes, and hostile bidding environments ensure that very few new businesses can compete for contracts, and the ones that do end up becoming specialists in those regulatory burdens, not in doing the right thing.The truth is, the people inside of government would like nothing more than to have the best and brightest minds in the world working on Healthcare.gov. But the best theyve got to choose from are 58 different companies. Thats *the* problem.
http://blog.dobt.co/post/63381111778/the-healthcare-gov-fiasco
Joey Liberal
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(2,921 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)Shake that in Uncle Dumbass's face on Thanksgiving.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)The wingnuts all cringe when they see me now.