A new audit by the federal government lays the infamously poor rollout of HealthCare.gov on the public workers charged with overseeing the $600 million project of building the website.
For instance, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid disregarded federal rules mandating that employees overseeing private contracts worth more than $10 million receive 96 hours of training on managing complex projects. A number of contracts worth tens of millions of dollars were overseen by untrained and under-qualified employees, according to the audit.
In fact, the audit found that the CMS staff in charge of monitoring private contractors won't have acquired the required training until October 2016. The agency has more than 400 staffers devoted to overseeing contracts.
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