{"id":38154,"date":"2013-10-27T08:30:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T12:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38154"},"modified":"2013-10-27T19:53:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T23:53:15","slug":"in-case-youre-wondering-why-the-obamacare-web-site-was-so-afu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38154","title":{"rendered":"In Case You&#8217;re Wondering Why the &#8220;Obamacare&#8221; Web Site Was So AFU* . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . .perhaps this article might help explain things:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/article\/2537194#.UlvHPWwQRGk.twitter\"><strong>Feds reviewed only one bid for Obamacare website design<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Single-bid, no-bid, and sole-source contracts all have their place.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve ever heard of a $670+ million dollar contract being awarded on that basis before &#8211; and certainly not to the US subsidiary of a foreign firm with a spotty track record.\u00a0 Hell, even the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37137\"><em>Angel<\/em> and <em>Oxcart<\/em> programs<\/a> evaluated multiple proposals initially (though Angel was eventually pursued sole-source by another Agency after the USAF rejected it).<\/p>\n<p>However, I also found this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/10\/25\/michelle-obamas-princeton-classmate-is-executive-at-company-that-built-obamacare-website\/\"><strong>Michelle Obama\u2019s Princeton classmate is executive at company that built Obamacare website<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting.\u00a0 Dunno if there&#8217;s a connection, but . . . .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Note<\/span>:\u00a0 AFU = &#8220;All Fouled Up&#8221;.\u00a0 But there may be other definitions for the acronym, too.\u00a0 (smile)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . .perhaps this article might help explain things: Feds reviewed only one bid for Obamacare &hellip; <a title=\"In Case You&#8217;re Wondering Why the &#8220;Obamacare&#8221; Web Site Was So AFU* . . .\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38154\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Case You&#8217;re Wondering Why the &#8220;Obamacare&#8221; Web Site Was So AFU* . . .<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-economy","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}