Yes, they did. But how do you prove cronyism? When did CGI get the contract to build the website? The chart below shows that CGI has contracted with the same federal government agency HHS since 2007...under Bush.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...JoZ2FvcEhuQ1VPUk96dG8wQ0E&usp=drive_web#gid=0 .
The source of the chart came from this WaPo article....
".... As Kaitlin Devine at the Sunlight Foundation has noted, government spending is bundled into large contracts that last for years, making it difficult to pinpoint exactly what is spent for what project.
For instance, CGI Federal, generally regarded as the main contractor for healthcare.gov, has one such contract that was signed three years before the Affordable Care Act was signed into law — and lasts until 2017.
Devine methodically searched through all of the
task orders for the CGI Federal contract, highlighted in blue what she guessed was related to the health-care Web site — and came up with a figure of just $70 million. (Still, we should note, a news release issued by CGI in 2011 touted a contract of $93 million over two years.) [See update below]
Of course, a Web site is just the Internet portal.
There’s also the entire backbone of the exchanges, such as the data hub created by Optum/Quality Software Services Inc., a unit of UnitedHealth Group. In a June report, the Government Accountability Office said that as of March 31, $55 million had been obligated to QSSI for the data hub....read....
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...JoZ2FvcEhuQ1VPUk96dG8wQ0E&usp=drive_web#gid=0
Whoa, looky there, it appears the CGI didn't create the data hub....Optum/Quality Software Services Inc., a unit of United Health Group, did. So where's your cronyism now, eh?
