Obamacare Website $93 Mil. Phony Crony Pay-Off

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, CMS, officials are Toni Townes-Whitleytight-lipped about why CGI was chosen or how it happened. They also refuse to say if other firms competed with CGI, or if there was ever a public solicitation for building Healthcare.gov, the backbone of Obamacare’s problem-plagued web portal. In awarding the Healthcare.gov contract, CMS relied on a little-known federal contracting system called ID/IQ, which is government jargon for “Indefinite Delivery and Indefinite Quantity.”

Michelle Obama

One huge fact is glaringly obvious, First Lady Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is a top executive at this company that earned the no-bid contract to build the failed Obamacare website.

• CGI Federal executives were large campaign bundlers for Obama. They helped him shut off all the security features on Obama's campaign donation website in 2008 and 2012 in order to take multi-millions in foreign donations.

• CGI Federal distributes $1.7 billion in federal Superstorm Sandy relief money. They won a multi-million dollar contract from the Obama administration in May, 2013.
  

• CGI Federal won the 'No-bid' $93 Million contract to build the failed Obamacare website. CMS officials are tight-lipped about why CGI was chosen or how it happened. They also refuse to say if other firms competed with CGI, or if there was ever a public solicitation for building Healthcare.gov, the backbone of Obamacare’s problem-plagued web portal. Between 2009 and 2013, CMS officials awarded 185 separate task orders to CGI totaling $678 million for work of all kinds, according to USAspending.gov, a federal spending database.The Obamacare website design contract was for $93 million.

• Toni Townes-Whitley, Princeton class of ’85, is senior vice president at CGI Federal, which earned the no-bid contract to build the $93 million Obamacare enrollment website at Healthcare.gov. CGI Federal is the U.S. arm of a Canadian company.

• Toni Townes-Whitley and Michelle Obama, her Princeton classmate, are both active members of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni.
  

• CGI in Canada also suffered embarrassment in 2011 when it failed to deliver on time for Ontario province's flagship project a new online medical registry for diabetes patients and treatment providers. Ontario government officials cancelled the $46.2 million contract after 14 months of delay in September 2012. Ontario officials currently refuse to pay any fees to CGI for the failed IT project.