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Originally Posted by PR_Glen
Yes, its' all the fault of the company in canada that dragged their feet and drove up costs, has nothing to do with the guys signing the checks...
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I don't think it was that the "dragged their feet".... I think it was more a problem of having to deal with 50 incompetent state governments to tie it all together, coupled with the fact that they are going to get paid obscene amounts of money no matter what happens. I don't think there were any performance based incentives, benchmarks required etc in the contract to fully bind them to a schedule and costs.
There is no question however (as was testified before Congress), that it was well known to have not been anywhere near ready and basically untested at launch time. I would guess again, that is the problem with making it political.
That said, spending that much money on a website is insane and then trying to launch it knowing the stakes without having a functioning site, having the user experience be so impossibly stupid and backwards by any measure and a perfect example of why government should not be deeply involved in or managing peoples own important life decisions.