<story><title>We paid $634 million for the Obamacare sites and all we got was this lousy 404</title><url>http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/obamacare-healthcare-gov-website-cost/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ktavera</author><text>For all of you that didn&amp;#x27;t know, this project was never put out for bid with an RFP. It was sole-sourced to CGI Federal without any competitive bids.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Federal health officials have not yet explained why CGI was given the contract or why it was awarded on a sole-source basis.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/some-say-health-care-sites-problems-highlight-flawed-federal-it-policies/2013/10/09/d558da42-30fe-11e3-8627-c5d7de0a046b_story_1.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;some-say-h...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Edit to add source]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iharris</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s worth noting that CGI was also responsible for the ill-fated long gun registry in Canada, which was recently canceled due (in part) to massive cost overruns [1] and inability to cope with large numbers of users.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Firearms_Registry#Cost_overruns&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.Wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Canadian_Firearms_Registry#Cost...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>We paid $634 million for the Obamacare sites and all we got was this lousy 404</title><url>http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/obamacare-healthcare-gov-website-cost/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ktavera</author><text>For all of you that didn&amp;#x27;t know, this project was never put out for bid with an RFP. It was sole-sourced to CGI Federal without any competitive bids.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Federal health officials have not yet explained why CGI was given the contract or why it was awarded on a sole-source basis.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/some-say-health-care-sites-problems-highlight-flawed-federal-it-policies/2013/10/09/d558da42-30fe-11e3-8627-c5d7de0a046b_story_1.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;some-say-h...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Edit to add source]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ctdonath</author><text>Upvote this.&lt;p&gt;Heck, push it to all your favorite news outlets. There&amp;#x27;s no reason why one obscure company should get the contract without viable competitors.</text></comment>