Health site builders said more testing was needed

October 24, 2013 at 11:17 a.m.

by The Associated Press

Andrew Slavitt, group executive vice president for Optum/QSSI, right, pauses while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing with contractors that built the federal government's health care websites.
Andrew Slavitt, group executive vice president for Optum/QSSI, right, pauses while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing with contractors that built the federal government's health care websites.

WASHINGTON — Two contractors responsible for building the Healthcare.gov website said Thursday that they would have liked more time to test it.

The contractors said before Congress that months of testing would have been better than the two weeks’ worth of checks done before the website launched Oct. 1. The testing was done by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, not a specialized tech company.

The contractors are CGI Federal Inc. and Quality Software Services Inc.

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