Shortened Bidding Process Limited Obamacare Contractor Options

The Oct. 1 deadline to launch HealthCare.gov made the Obama administration use an accelerated bidding system that limited the choice of contractors to only four companies, Bloomberg reports.

The expedited process cut up to nine months from the normal process, but limited those that could bid to a preapproved group of 16 companies. Only four of the 16 ended up bidding for the work, including CGI, the company that ultimately won the job.

The contractor was then given about two years to build the federal exchange website.