Once you finish the New Investigator Training Program as a 1099 and receive your credentials, do those credentials belong to the company the sponsored you to train or to you? If you leave that company and decide to start with another company, what happens? Thank you
The credentials belong to DCSA and the company that sponsored you. If you leave the company and are not going to another BI company, you will have return the credentials. If you go to another BI company you may be allowed to carry over the credentials.
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I second this. DCSA owns the creds and if you go to another company, there is a process (I was told 1-2 weeks) to get the creds “switched” over to the new company. In other words, if you don’t want to stop working for a couple weeks, coordinate with the new company well in advance.
If you don’t pre-coordinate, you’ll have to return the creds to the old company and hope they don’t drag feet getting them sent back to DCSA to send to the new company and then to you. They may issue you new creds, but I am doubtful since the creds seem a bit more particular to each badge number.
Now, as a 1099 you can work for two different contract companies at the same time, as long as they do not conflict with each other (such as working for a prime and then a subcontractor under that prime). I worked for a minute with a prime as 1099 and then a sub of a different prime with no issues. They even issued separate PIPS ID for each contract.