Basically bullshit when you factor in that the one contractor not hired was the integrator. HHS's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMMS), i.e. inexperienced/no experience in projects of this scale inexplicably decided to be the integrator of this wildly spread out project, as the report details.
And did a horrible job of it, as we're hearing from the NYT "In the last 10 months alone, government documents show, officials modified hardware and software requirements for the exchange seven times." (https://qht.co/item?id=6583327) and from many sources that changes were being required though the last week before the launch. Which of course had to be coupled with only trying to test the whole thing in that last week.
Now matter how evil you believe these contractors to be, no one can realistically claim they could have produced a working system under these constraints, including how late they were brought into the game.
And did a horrible job of it, as we're hearing from the NYT "In the last 10 months alone, government documents show, officials modified hardware and software requirements for the exchange seven times." (https://qht.co/item?id=6583327) and from many sources that changes were being required though the last week before the launch. Which of course had to be coupled with only trying to test the whole thing in that last week.
Now matter how evil you believe these contractors to be, no one can realistically claim they could have produced a working system under these constraints, including how late they were brought into the game.