CGI Selected as Part of Team to Deliver Statewide Medicaid Management
Information System for California Department of Health Care Services

    
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FAIRFAX, VA, May 4 /CNW Telbec/ - CGI Group Inc. (NYSE: GIB; TSX: GIB.A), a leading provider of information technology and business process services, today announced a partnership with ACS, A Xerox Company (ACS), to deliver enhanced fiscal intermediary administrative services and an advanced Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) for California's Department of Health Care Services (DHCS). CGI's component of the contract is valued at US$168 million over 10 years.

ACS, the prime contractor, and CGI were selected after an extensive, competitive two-year bid and evaluation process. The California Medicaid Management Information System (CA-MMIS) supports the Medi-Cal program and processes payments to thousands of health care providers including physicians, pharmacies, hospitals and other providers.

CGI will staff the Enterprise Project Management Office as well as manage the Quality Management organization. In addition, CGI will be responsible for automated business rules extraction and business change management services relative to DHCS's transition to the new CA-MMIS and will manage the testing organization through our Sacramento-based testing center of excellence. To improve third party collections, CGI will customize and implement its Computer Assisted Collection System(R) for Government (CACS-G) solution.

"For more than 25 years, CGI has partnered with the State of California to provide built-for-government solutions that help governments be more efficient and effective while serving their citizens," said Dave Delgado, Vice-President of CGI West Public Sector. "We're pleased to join ACS in helping California's Department of Health Care Services to transform their operations."

"The citizens and state of California, with more than seven million Medi-Cal beneficiaries, will benefit from improved, efficient management of health care services payments," said David Maxwell-Jolly, Director of Department of Health Care Services. "The experienced team of ACS, including CGI, met our challenge of modernizing a 30+ year old legacy system to be more responsive yet cost effective. Through this partnership, we will transform operations for one of California's largest programs, serving its most vulnerable citizens."

About CGI

Founded in 1976, CGI Group Inc. is one of the largest independent information technology and business process services firms in the world. CGI and its affiliated companies employ approximately 26,000 professionals. CGI provides end-to-end IT and business process services to clients worldwide from offices in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia Pacific as well as from centers of excellence in North America, Europe and India. As at March 31, 2010, CGI's order backlog was $11.4 billion. CGI shares are listed on the NYSE (GIB) and the TSX (GIB.A) and are included in both, the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and the FTSE4Good Index. Website: www.cgi.com.

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