The Way Business is Now Done
NEW SCHEMES IN CORRUPTION
The Daily Caller Opinion Editorial
By Adam Andrzejewski | Founder OpenTheBooks.com
January 15, 2014 Whether it's Washington, DC or state patronage systems, the modus operandi for IT contracting is to stonewall and delay transparency. Last week, we learned that the Obama administration will not renew the $93 million contract of the troubled primary healthcare.gov contractor, CGI Federal. Accenture will take CGI's place, by virtue of a no-bid $90 million, twelve month contract. Click here for more details Never-the-less, CGI just received another $37 million in U.S. government IT work. Michelle Obama's classmate at Princeton is a senior vice president at CGI and the idea that this has nothing to do with using CGI stretches credulity. Accenture gets to drive healthcare.gov despite agreeing in September 2011 to pay a $63 million settlement to the Justice Department who had filed suit alleging price inflation and bid distortion.
Accenture's not the first healthcare.gov contractor to be investigated for wrongdoing. Since 2012, Client Services Network, Inc (CNSI) has been a healthcare.gov subcontractor under QSSI.
CNSI's contract on Louisiana's Medicaid Management Information System
(MMIS) was recently terminated by Gov. Jindal for alleged irregularities
during the bidding process. News reports have chronicled a grand jury
investigation.
But the patronage parade isn't over. Our investigation has uncovered...
The WhiteHouse.gov
manager who received the "user interface" healthcare.gov contract while
working at a new "garage start-up" company.
The ObamaCare "gatekeeper" to the states who has a possible direct conflict of economic interest Illinois circumventing procurement law on up to $190 million of no-bid IT contracts with the same subcontractor on healthcare.gov and who was terminated in Louisiana. From what "successful" Republican governor did President Obama learn the IT contracting schemes?
And much, much more...
From the Desk of Adam Andrzejewski For More information, visit www.openthebooks.com |
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