Obama probably didn't pay its developers enough to get solid coders. Hence a scrappy web system.
Au contraire, Monsieur, beaucoup d'argent. nypost.com/2013/11/01/obama-donors-firm-hired-to-fix-web-mess-it-helped-make Thinking out loud, if Quality Software Services was selected for this most visible effort, then they must have a track record with Federal agencies. And they do (read, they're wired). One (only) example: Quality Software Services, Inc. Wins $109.93 Million Federal Contract for Medicare and Medicaid Services Jun 20 12 Quality Software Services, Inc. won a federal contract valued at up to $109,926,956 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, for enterprise identity management services under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. So they are in the identity management services game, which means that they already have your number, so to speak. And are pre-existing contractors to Health & Human Services. Yet more searching discovers that all the key management personnel have TS clearances, but the firm seems to never have had TS contracts, so one can argue that the clearances were gifts for friends. This is a rat hole... --dan