Obamacare Expedited Bidding Limited Who Could Build Site
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The race to construct an online insurance exchange by Oct. 1 spurred the Obama administration to use an expedited bidding system that limited its choice of a builder to just four companies, including CGI Group Inc.
Eighteen months elapsed after passage of the 2010 health-care overhaul before CGI was selected to begin work, government documents show. That left the Montreal-based vendor two years to create a website, healthcare.gov, designed to link consumers with insurers while drawing data from a variety of U.S. agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service.