.... For future discussions... when you reference "Bush Administration" do you include the entire Executive Branch of the U.S. Government, or do you mean specifically those persons within the administrative staff of the President and Vice-President of the United States?
Entire Executive Branch of the U.S.
.... This is not a "trick question" at all.
It is for the purpose of assuring that in future discussions, particularly in the ramp up to 2016 "we" are comparing apples with apples ...
To clarify and "fact check" ... CGI was "certified" in 2007 as a contractor, along with many others, who was "eligible" to participate in upgrading IT systems ... software ...
It was 15 others to be exact. It was a total of 16 that were on that approved list.
Being hired to "sweep floors" and "clean up trash" does not qualify one to construct skyscrapers ...
One has to be naive of the highest order if one believes that a classmate/alumni association with the First Lady plays no role in being selected for a $200 million contract.
CGI had been winning competitive bids for work orders from the federal government since 2003. Why would they need Mrs. Obama to pull strings for them in 2011?
Michelle's classmate worked for CGI at the time made a number of visits to the White House ....
CGI had a shabby history in Canada .... in the medical field for IT work.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/canadi...rticle/2537101
Originally Posted by LexusLover
I clicked on the Washington Examiner link. This is what I found which is the same thing I said in reply # 90. The Washington Post and the Washington Examiner are saying the same thing regarding the streamlined procurement process to select vendors for the project that the HealthCare.gov was attached to. From the link.
Rather than open the contracting process to a competitive public solicitation with multiple bidders, officials in the Department of Health and Human Services' 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.
CMS officials are tight-lipped about why CGI was chosen or how it happened. They also refuse to say if other firms competed with CGI, or if there was ever a public solicitation for building Healthcare.gov, the backbone of Obamacare’s problem-plagued web portal.
Instead, it appears they used what amounts to a federal procurement system loophole to award the work to the Canadian firm.
CGI was one of 16 companies that had been qualified by HHS during President George W. Bush's second term to deliver, without public competition, a variety of hardware, software and communication products and services.
In awarding the Healthcare.gov contract, CMS relied on a little-known federal contracting system called ID/IQ, which is government jargon for “Indefinite Delivery and Indefinite Quantity.”
CGI was a much smaller vendor when it was approved by HHS in 2007. With the approval, CGI became eligible for multiple awards without public notice and in circumvention of the normal competitive bidding procurement process.
You have implied that Mrs. Obama pulled some strings to get CGI the bid for the website. The fact is CGI was put on this preferred list by HHS when Bush was president in 2007. The project that HealthCare.gov website was attached to did not use a normal competitive bidding procurement process. CGI did not need Mrs. Obama's help to get the bid.
.. yeah well, suck it
