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Lead Contractor On Health-Care Web Site Led By Execs From Troubled IT Company
thomst writes "The Washington Post's Jerry Markon and Alice Crites report that 'The lead contractor on the dysfunctional Web site for the Affordable Care Act is filled with executives from a company that mishandled at least 20 other government IT projects, including a flawed effort to automate retirement benefits for millions of federal workers, documents and interviews show. CGI Federal, the main Web site developer, entered the U.S. government market a decade ago when its parent company purchased American Management Systems, a Fairfax County contractor that was coming off a series of troubled projects. CGI moved into AMS's custom-made building off Interstate 66, changed the sign outside and kept the core of employees, who now populate the upper ranks of CGI Federal.'"
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In Montreal, where CGI HQ is based, the organization is referred by many in Quebecois slang "Criss de Gang d'Incompetent" (CGI) == Fucking group of incompetents.
This was taught to me by a former CGI employee.
They are well know (like other three letter oursourcing groups like IBM and CSC) to underbid to get a contract and under deliver. I've heard former high level CGI executives (who after they left) admit this and chuckle about it out loud.
The truth it so many other large firms do the same thing.
It was chosen, no-bid, to a political ally of Michelle Obama.
By the Bush administration. Before Obama was inaugurated.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2477403/Michelle-Os-Princeton-classmate-exec-company-built-Obamacare-website.html
Therefore, by the (faulty) logic you're using, you're just a cow with a keyboard - osu-neko (2604)
I've been to the Post Office, they do a great job. In my State the DMV does a great job, too. I buy permits for commercial mushroom harvesting on National Forests, and except for during the shutdown (not their fault) they give great service.
You want bad service, forget government, try a multinational corporation!
And the pay is typically industry average, with strong benefits. Probably why places like the Post Office can give large and difficult tests and only hire the people with the highest scores.
I used to be a Wildland Firefighter, and only the very best can get a job on the rare Government crews. The government pays less per hour for their own crews, but the workers make a lot more. The worst crews can be reliably identified as being the contractors with the lowest rates.
My public utility, which is run by a board that my community directly elects, has low rates and great service. If the power is out, they get it back on way faster than a commercial utility; and I pay less per kilowatt! And the workers get competitive pay.
Just about any government worker, if you look a the quality of work they do and ask, "what would cost to get this same level of service from a contractor?" The answer will always be "more than it costs now." And if you do it, and then pay that extra, the quality will almost never actually be the same.
You should look it up, those are fake temporary losses because congress required them to pre-fund their pension plan for x years, something nobody else has to do, and something that was done specifically to create the lie that they're losing money.
They make money, but they're forced to save more than they make. I mean, don't just repeat thin, obvious propaganda like a right-wing shill. Either care enough to google it one time and find out it is a lie, or find a better propaganda line. This is slashdot, kiddo. We expect better.
Now get off the lawn, and take your lawn signs with you!