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IRS Hires Same
Contractor that Bungled Obamacare Rollout
Rob Garver, Fiscal Times
Officials at the Internal Revenue Service spent a large amount of time
trudging up to Capitol Hill in 2014 so that various Republican
committee chairmen in the House of Representatives could berate them
over the targeting of some conservative not for profits in the run-up
to the 2012 election. It seems likely they’d have preferred to fly
under lawmakers’ radar in the 114th Congress.
If that’s what they wanted, spending more than $4.5 million to hire the
same contractor that botched the rollout of the Healthcare.gov website
in 2013 probably wasn’t the best move. Hiring CGI Federal to provide
“critical functions” related to the further implementation of the
Affordable Care Act, was practically asking for a Congressional
investigation.
On Friday, Rep. Pete Roskam (R-IL), who chairs the House Ways and Means
Committee’s Oversight panel, did what any self-respecting Republican in
his place would do. He sent an incredulous-sounding letter to IRS
Commissioner John Koskinen asking what, exactly, the agency was
thinking.
“As you know, in January 2014, the Department of Health and Human
Services fired CGI Federal after its disastrous rollout of the
HealthCare.gov website,” Roskam wrote. “Shortly thereafter,
Massachusetts followed suit, firing CGI for its poor performance
developing the state health exchange website. Governor Deval Patrick
called CGI Federal a ‘disappointing partner.’ In August 2014, Vermont
also fired CGI Federal for its ‘unacceptable’ work creating its state
exchange website. I am concerned that just months after the HHS and
Massachusetts firings, the IRS selected the same contractor to provide
critical technology services related to the administration of the
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act...
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