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Who is that company. >> qssi who built the hub, yes, sir. >> this is the same company that told our committee last week they were not only the develop he ever of the hub and the pipeline but also an independent tester of the system. >> yeah. >> you've acknowledged in your testimony today that ip accurate testing played a significant role in this failed launch. aren't you concerned that qssi has lost its ability to be an objective independent arbitrator in addressing the problems that plague the system now? bass they're part of the tester, part of the developer, part of the problem? >> no, i ha...

Functional but at a very slow speed and very low reliability and continued to function. they tear down some of the features feeling it would be better to load them in later. one was the shop and browse feature, another was the spanish version of the website and the medicaid transfers. all three of those issues were pared down in september to not overload the system. >> thank you. last week cgi federal testified responsible for end to end testing, and they said months of testing would have been preferable to two weeks. do you believe two weeks with enough time to complete testing of the entire ...

Because otherwise we will, the there will be a lot of folks who will not be able to ask a question at all. >> three of us. >> mr. chairman, i would submit to if the questions, get submitted we would be happy to provide timely answers as well. >> can i do that? so with that, we'll try two minutes?? >> mr. lance. i guess i won -- >> i guess i won lottery on two minutes, madam secretary. >> time has expired. >> 20 seconds, mr. chairman. on the website, madam secretary, the contractors testified last week that they needed more than two weeks for end to end testing. why in your opinion was there no...

Although, i would suggest that the website has never crashed. it is functional, but at a very slow speed and very low reliability and has continued to function. having said that, they paired down some of the features feeling that it would be better to load them in later. one was the shop and browse feature. another one was the spanish version of the website and the medicaid transfers. all three of those issues were pair the down in september to not overload the system. >> last week there was testimony that cms was responsible for end testing. and they believe that months of testing would have ...

Been a disaster. >> when the secretary said she didn't realize that the site would be optimally working before the launch did you believe that? >> you know, we heard from the administration in july and august and september. they all said, it's ready to go. they almost wanted to have it in advance almost. they almost wanted to seem like they wanted to go prior to october 1. but because the testing what so poor, never the end to end testing. it's like contractors building a house, but the guy building the first story didn't know that the basement was on the next lot. there was no connectivity. w...