Accenture's Emergency No-Bid Healthcare.gov Contract Is 6mo+ Behind Schedule & $30M Above Cost
by Phil Kerpen, Contributing Author: When the Obama administration bypassed the usual competitive bidding rules to issue an emergency $91 million, no-bid contract to Accenture to buld the missing back-end payment system for Healthcare.gov, the justification was that the entire system would collapse without this functionality complete by mid-March.
But was the payment system completed? Of course not. In fact, HHS has now published a timeline for payments using the manual, estimated "interim payment system" through at least the end of September -- more than six months behind the deadline that so urgently required a no-bid contract:
And here's the really wonderful news on Accenture's no-bid contract: not only is it running at least six months late, but the cost has also ballooned to at least $121 million, an overrun of $30 million and 33 percent. And it will almost certainly continue to climb.
Accenture: mediocre performance, late and over budget.
But hey, what's another $121 million dollars from federal taxpayers when you just flushed over a billion on just five state Obamacare websites that barely work at all?
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Phil Kerpen is president of American Commitment. He is on Twitter and on Facebook and a a contributing author for the ARRA News Service.
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But was the payment system completed? Of course not. In fact, HHS has now published a timeline for payments using the manual, estimated "interim payment system" through at least the end of September -- more than six months behind the deadline that so urgently required a no-bid contract:
And here's the really wonderful news on Accenture's no-bid contract: not only is it running at least six months late, but the cost has also ballooned to at least $121 million, an overrun of $30 million and 33 percent. And it will almost certainly continue to climb.
Accenture: mediocre performance, late and over budget.
But hey, what's another $121 million dollars from federal taxpayers when you just flushed over a billion on just five state Obamacare websites that barely work at all?
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Phil Kerpen is president of American Commitment. He is on Twitter and on Facebook and a a contributing author for the ARRA News Service.
Tags: Accenture, emergency no-bid congract Heathcare.gov, website, behind schedule3, $30 million, cost overrun, Phil Kerpen, American Commitment To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. and "Like" Facebook Page - Thanks!
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