US Government Spends $634 MILLION DOLLARS on Healthcare.gov Website

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Site: www.healthcare.gov

The exact cost to build Healthcare.gov, according to U.S. government records, appears to have been $634,320,919, which we paid to a company you probably never heard of: CGI Federal. The company originally won the contract back in 2011, but at that time, the cost was expected to run “up to” $93.7 million – still a chunk of change, but nothing near where it ended up.
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In comparison....

Facebook operated for a full six years before surpassing the $600 million mark in June 2010.

Twitter, created in 2006, managed to get by with only $360.17 million in total funding until a $400 million boost in 2011.

Instagram ginned up just $57.5 million in funding before Facebook bought it for (a staggering) $1 billion last year.

LinkedIn and Spotify, meanwhile, have only raised, respectively, $200 million and $288 million.
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Oh and it has 404 issues too.
 


brandonbaker said:
And here comes the real kicker: CGI Federal is a Canadian company.
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How did I miss that? Was digging around and couldn't find anything..

Found it though..

CGI Federal is a subsidiary of Montreal-based CGI Group. With offices in Fairfax, Va., the subsidiary has been a darling of the Obama administration, which since 2009 has bestowed it with $1.4 billion in federal contracts, according to USAspending.gov.

Earlier this year the U.S. Government Accountability Office criticized the pace of development and testing for Healthcare.gov.’s IT system and noted that it was missing important milestone deadlines.

HHS is by far the single largest federal contractor of CGI, showering it with $645 million in contracts. The Defense Department pays the Canadian company $254 million, the EPA $58 million and the Justice Department $36 million.

In comparison, in 2008, under President George W. Bush, CGI contracts totaled only $16.5 million for all federal departments and agencies.
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Weird...

The other thing is.. They also have their hand in:

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
U.S. Courts
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
U.S. Federal Government Combat Logistics Support
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
State Public Employee Plan

And a boat load of US states..

Stock is steady/not doing anything for 7+ years...

Then a bump randomly around 2007.

Goes back down.

Check out the MASSIVE growth 2009 and forward. From $3.48 to $35+ and growing..

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:GIB&sa=X&ei=pVtWUo_GCpS34AOn_4HwBA&ved=0CC0Q2AEwAA
 
It seems odd that the government can't find any talent in the country who can pull it off, but I guess the country is falling to bits anyway. These amounts are still chump change compared to what Republicans pissed away on two pointless wars (among many others).
 
mattseh said:
Don't see how this matters. This is a good example of why it's not a good idea for monopolies to run anything. They are terrible at it. Incentives, folks.
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It's not so much that it matters in any economic sense, but you'd figure that with that kind of budget, we wouldn't have to cross national borders.
 
Did a little digging into CGI Group and it turns out the president of the company was born in Kenya.
 
Funny thing is, we have this sort of project in Germany and Switzerland as well.

When you break it down, though, those huuuuge cost overruns are actually because governments are SHIT at managing projects.

Everyone and their mother will change around the specs all the fucking time, resulting in a huge time and cost sink.

Germany's "Arbeitsamt" website for jobs Startseite - www.arbeitsagentur.de

cost 223 Million USD, project begun 2003, the costs are end 2008

Back then, though it turned out that no one was using it to post their jobs, including the German government, who continued to use their own platform BUND.DE - Stellenangebote, Ausschreibungen, Behördenverzeichnis, Leistungen des Bundes - Verwaltung Online to post open positions.

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Fierce said:
These amounts are still chump change compared to what Republicans pissed away on two pointless wars (among many others).
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Well I guess it's all fine and dandy then... " Hey look everyone that bank robber over there took 10 million, what's the measly hundred grand I took even matter? "

sounds logical aye?

Aren't these bid contracts? I find it hard to believe those were the lowest bids for these projects you could've paid no more than 5 figures on elance for.

Aren't the bids available under the freedom of information act? Oh right...

"The government is shut down due to overspending problems... so we'll get back to you later on your overspending concerns... Thanks for paying your taxes on time btw!" .- The Government
 
Good luck on outing Jon, guys. Brace yourself lol.

Seriously, no wonder we are fucked.

But shows you again that connections and networking are EVERYTHING.
 
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Site: www.healthcare.gov



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Oh and it has 404 issues too.
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Isn't that site a WP theme? It looks really familiar.

Nothing usually surprises me with the gov, but this does. Some asshole is driving around in his Ferrari in Canada, laughing at the US right now.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBCq8XDgrP0"]Tony Harrison This is an outrage. - YouTube[/ame]
 
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