There are total of 6 protests: which involve 2 different solicitation numbers, 3 different file numbers all filed by Paragon and all open
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Just got an email at Paragon. …DCSA intends on exercising the next option period of the current DCSA contract, which will extend through 3/31/23…
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Any updates from the Peraton all hands earlier today?
Not sure how to take that Paragon news.
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What does this mean? Sorry to ask a noob question.
Doesn’t mean they necessarily will. Probably depends how the protest turns out.
The current contract can run at latest to 3/2023. Sounds like smoke and mirrors from Paragon to try and keep as much staff as possible until appeal process completes
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How is it smoke and mirrors from Pargon when DCSA decided to extend the current contract until 3/2023?
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DCSA exercised the same option with Peraton.
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And, I’m sure they did with CACI as well given the amount of work.
Exactly. The longest the contract can get extended to is 3/2023. Paragon has people jumping ship and they are trying to temper that.
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Again, DCSA extended the contract for all three vendors. They could have extended to only two vendors, but they need all three vendors with the current workload. Apparently, DCSA realizes that Paragon is quite capable of managing the current workload without poaching investigators with crazy offers. Obviously, you work for CACI and are ok with how CACI operates.
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Very few investigators are jumping ship from paragon as most investigators at paragon worked for the other two vendors and know what it’s like working for them I happen to be one of those investigators if I have to I will go to one of the other two vendors but only if and when I have to
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When everybody was told to get CAC cards issued to them last year ASAP and they all had expiration dates of 3/23…I just assumed that was because the contract was up in 3/23. It’s not big secret.
And then we never even used them.
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They have come in useful for some. I have heard stories of investigators not being allowed entry onto military bases with only their credentials, but the CAC card alone has given them base access.
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Thats honestly all I use mine for. But I guess its better to have them and not need it rather than needing it and not having it.
The bases should only be using the CAC or PIV to allow entry onto the base.
A multitude of bases have allowed access with only credentials for decades. Using a piv or cac card for entry in lieu of credentials has never been the standard. What they “should do” and reality aren’t the same thing.
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Allowing access with creds instead following the military requirements for access required since HSPD-12 was instituted unfortunately are at the mercy of lazy gate guards, Your creds, without a CAC or PIV on your person, do not meet access requirements to federal facilities. This is the same reason the vehicle decal is never supposed to be the only method of access - that process went away shortly after 9/11 (and had been slowly phased out for a decade before).
It’s not your fault the gate guards are not following requirements. Unfortunately, the guards that do follow procedure catch flak for doing in right.
I never offer my creds at the gate - i always used the PIV until i was issued the CAC. I never used my retired military ID while working.
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