Since my team does website development combined with my experience in government proposals, I’ve been asked numerous times why the Affordable Healthcare (Obamacare) failed.<\/p>\n
It has nothing to do with Democrats versus Republicans or if you like President Obama. I see the failure on the government’s procurement system primarily be based on low-bid. We see this repeatedly in construction and luckily things are changing toward best value bids.<\/p>\n
When you require low bid, you ask for the minimum a company can provide and discourage innovation, customer service, and accountability. As a consumer, this sounds horrible, yet government agencies from the local, state, and federal level all utilize it. The media outlets are having a field day finding website experts that continually state the website utilizes ten-year-old technology and was doomed to fail from the start. What do you expect when you reward the cheapest bid?<\/p>\n
Cartman says it best:<\/p>\n
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