D.C. Awards Obamacare IT Work To Offshore Outsourcer

Posted by samzenpus on Monday July 1, 2013 @03:57AM from the cheap-labor dept.

dcblogs writes "Infosys, an India-based offshore IT outsourcing firm, recently announced that it had won a $49.5 million contract to develop a health benefit exchange for the District of Columbia. The contract was awarded to a U.S.-based Infosys subsidiary, Infosys Public Services. That's one of the larger government contracts won by an offshore outsourcing firm, but it's unclear whether any of the work will be done overseas. The District isn't disclosing any contract details. An FOIA request for the contract has been submitted. Infosys is one of the largest users of H-1B visas, and has been under a grand jury investigation for its use of B1 visitor visas."

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Re:pretty much required, isn't it? by h4rr4r · 2013-07-01 04:10 · Score: 4, Interesting

Is this cost plus or fixed price?
I ask because I suspect the former and that there will be lots of extra costs not factored into the quote. Like rewriting it over and over when the lowest bidder not surprisingly supplies crap.