HealthCare.gov contract: Politics not a factor, but neither were firm’s ties to failed projects

The Washington Post reports:

CGI Federal, the company responsible for building the problem-plagued Affordable Care Act Web site, won the job because of what federal officials deemed a “technically superior” proposal, according to government documents and people familiar with the decision.

Not considered in the 2011 selection process was the history of numerous executives at CGI Federal, who had come from another company that had mishandled at least 20 other government ­information-technology projects more than a decade ago. But federal officials were not required to examine that long-term track record, which included a highly publicized failure to automate retirement benefits for millions of federal workers.

The great moments of socialized medicine.