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May 22, 2015 By AMK

Contractor overseeing HealthCare.gov steps down

The contractor responsible for the embattled HealthCare.gov website is stepping down from its role now that “our job has been completed.”

“Having achieved the goal of making HealthCare.gov a stable and reliable platform for people seeking coverage, Optum will not rebid to continue the role of senior adviser,” Matt Stearns, a company spokesman, said in a Wall Street Journal article last week. Optum’s contract expires in July.

It was one of 33 contractors working on the $800 million website before it launched in October 2013. In that role, Optum set up the Data Services Hub, which handles band-end queries of federal databases, and the tool for handling initial sign-in data, according to a ModernHealthcare article.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.fiercegovhealthit.com/story/contractor-overseeing-healthcaregov-steps-down/2015-05-18

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: Affordable Health Care Act, HHS, web resources

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