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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 02:26 PM Aug 2020

Company that bungled Florida unemployment system gets new $135 million state contract

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article244739707.html

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is preparing to award a nine-figure state contract to the company responsible for Florida’s disastrous unemployment system.

Deloitte Consulting beat out four other companies for a contract to centralize and manage Florida’s Medicaid data, the state Agency for Health Care Administration announced Monday. The agency is expected to enter negotiations with Deloitte in the coming weeks.

The announcement came after the company has weathered months of scorn for its 2013 overhaul of Florida’s unemployment system. Deloitte was paid more than $40 million to create CONNECT to handle unemployment claims. Amid a crush of coronavirus-related unemployment claims in March, it failed immediately and repeatedly.

DeSantis himself has blasted CONNECT and ordered his inspector general to investigate the state’s 2011 contract with Deloitte, which was signed a few months after Gov. Rick Scott took office.


F*** DeSantis. Isn't this the definition of insanity ?
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Company that bungled Florida unemployment system gets new $135 million state contract (Original Post) steve2470 Aug 2020 OP
Guess they did exactly what Florida hired them to do. iemitsu Aug 2020 #1
That's why it's called Flori-DUH! n/t NewDayOranges Aug 2020 #2
They didn't bungle anything FoxNewsSucks Aug 2020 #3
This!👆 SheltieLover Aug 2020 #4

FoxNewsSucks

(10,417 posts)
3. They didn't bungle anything
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 02:40 PM
Aug 2020

They did exactly what Ron DeathSentence and the republicons wanted them to do.

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