Do you work for Paragon? If you do, you pay no attention to the experience of middle and senior leadership. As a middle manager, I have worked for USIS and CACI and was a subk for Keypoint. I can tell you that there is not one remenant of any of these vendors at Paragon. Anyone in a leadership position at Paragon knows the pitfalls of USIS, CACI, and Keypoint/Peraton.
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So what happens if they lost it? Do they become a sub to one of the other two?
Well, still waiting on my onboard date with .gov but I have to agree with PIPSr. I rank my experience with Paragon as 90% to 95% positive. The only problems that I have had with them was a former TL that was not the greatest (who I believe was let go). I don’t know about upper management but mid level have all been very easy to work with. It will be a shame if they do lose the bid protest.
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I had a contract with Paragon and they were not much different than USIS in their bedside manner and approach to Investigators. That’s because many of them used to work at USIS and didn’t learn their lesson or learn from past mistakes. I am only referring to the several individuals I had conversations with in the context of holding a contract of one year but it was none too pleasant to deal with those folks at Paragon in middle management and senior leadership. Hopefully things are better there now but every DCSA contractor treats the field like red headed step children. Let’s not sugar coat it!
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I’m not sure what your experience was, but I have been with them from the start. I have had zero complaints, other than the day to day frustrations that comes with the job. I have been treated well and heard by senior leadership. I was also with USIS for many years. USIS leadership is scattered among the three contractors. They are not all concentrated in one contractor. Start looking at the org chart for CACI and Peraton. In addition, all middle and senior management at USIS were not corrupt. That’s a broad sweep. There is no sugarcoating anything. Paragon by far is the best vendor for investigators wanting a quality of life. Postings from other Paragon employees have confirmed this. I will be holding out to the end. No rush to get back to the meat grinder.
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I agree, as a former Investigator with USIS and various contractors over the years, Paragon is far better than CACI and Peraton in terms of treating employees well. Hope their protest works and are awarded the contract.
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What happened to the Securitas protest on the GAO website?? It has just disappeared….
IDK, all the DCSA ones are not showing
It’s still there. Shows as open.
False alarm. I found it. I was searching under “all” types of protests (open and closed) and it only came up if I selected open (only) for the protest type. Sorry. My bad. Go back to your business……I will continue to wait impatiently….
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LOL I just did the same thing. 
Worse case scenario; PARAGON does not get the contract. Then what? any thoughts? I haven’t been assigned a DHS case is a long time, so will that be the only contract they have? Will most investigators be laid off? Will PARAGON really become a sub-prime contractor?
I wish I had an answer for you. When GDIT sank, they just watched everyone drown, so hopefully this is not the case.
Just got an email for a “Leadership” call on Monday with CACI…will we finally hear the outcome???
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I was wondering the same thing. 
The “Leadership” who all need to be replaced, just ant to hear themselves talk. 30 minutes of nonsense
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Bingo points on Monday for 1) Handy Andy’s weather forecast, 2) Painful reading of a script by various members of “management” and 3) Everyone saying "thank you for all of your hard work…
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I don’t know if the call on Monday will be an announcement, but, I got a “merit” pay increase this week. I looked up the Wage Determination for the new contract and it is exactly the same hourly as my new rate (ha, ha - “merit” BS).
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Do they still have laughter hour on those calls even as they have employees on LWOP?
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Lol this is too good and painfully true.
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