DHS contract is becoming a joke. It is beyond unrealistic to complete a full case, especially when there are so many issues with most of these, in seven days. And if you don’t complete it in seven days, your reward is the do not assign list. Well, at least at that point you can maybe get caught up before you are drowned again in the repetitive cycle of Hell.
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If you fudge the work and take shortcuts it’s totally possible to complete it. Think like the Volkswagon engineers did a few years ago.
Where is all this DHS work? It’s not with 1Force. Or Omni, frankly. Of course, I’m 1099, so I’m sure it’s scraps if we get anything.
Have you tried ADC LTD? Omni keeps saying they have work and I don’t see much of anything
I don’t get the constant complaining on here about DHS work. I’ve worked thousands of DCSA/OPM cases over the years and at least several hundred DHS cases and there is no major difference in complexity or issues with either investigative agency. Must be some inexperienced Investigators who haven’t ran the full gamut as an Investigator.
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Omniplex provides their DHS work primarily to only their company employees and not their CI’s.
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Have you worked any DHS cases in the last six months? Very experienced investigator here. Current DHS anpplicants are blatantly worse in every way.
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I have worked DHS cases for the last twelve years.
Applied with ADC a couple of months ago when they said they were desperate for people, WITH the help of an employee, and with with over 20 years experience.
Bupkis.
I personally don’t think DHS is much different than DCSA work. My only issue is you have re-contact the Subject about the most minor discrepancies from Source testimony, you end up re-contacting the subject 5-6 times.
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Is that a customer adjudcator request or just an internal perfectionist reviewer request? It’s my understanding that “minor discrepancies” in DHS reports aren’t a big issue right now.
Not sure what you mean by this
It is a customer request and has been for many years.
I didn’t realize the govvy customer was reaching out repeatedly directly to the field investigators. In my experience internal review was more particular than the customer in a neverending quest for unattainable perfection the customer could care less about.
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I should have been a little clearer. The customer is not reaching out directly to the field investigator. The repeated subject recontacts are part of the contract that the vendor negotiated with the customer. That was what I was told.
Great insight, would be nice if they said something so people could move on or not.
They won’t tell you to move on because if they need “boots on the ground” for an employment record or reference that needs to be done in person before they can write it off as unsuccessful, then they have the resources to go get the individual or record. If they told you to move on, they’d lose their resources in specific geographical areas.
Omniplex used to be a heavy CI based company but with most things being done remotely by phone or VTC, sadly they no longer need CI resources except for those one off’s where they need “boots on the ground”.
The frustrating part is that Omni does remote telephone work for the contracts I hold with them in my specific local area with their company employees instead of giving the work to me so they can keep their company employee busy and engaged from my perspective.
I truly wonder what is the motivation and reason to continue on with Omniplex at this time as a CI as they don’t even provide me the local work when it comes into my area where I reside for the contracts I maintain with them.
Well said, I’m experiencing the same thing with Omni and that is really a top culprit
Until Omni is willing to regularly engage with their CI’s instead of giving 90% of their work to their full time hourly employees, Omniplex really is not a player in the CI market. I would consider utilizing DCSA sub contractors before Omniplex going forward. That wasn’t the case prior to 2020 and COVID circumstances as Omni used to be an excellent place to take work as a CI as the case work was required to be done in person and they had lots of work. The Investigator had some control and power at the time over the vendors when work was required to be done in person because they had to utilize us in our geographical areas, however, now the vendors and in particular, Omniplex, hold a majority of all the cards. Work can be assigned to anyone from any area in the country and companies are now assigning work to only high volume CI’s and Investigators with high quality and timeliness. My guess going forward is the average to below average CI’s with average to below average quality and timeliness will have their contractual relationships terminated in the future with many vendor relationships because of this assignment philosophy.
Buy hey they still may need us from time to time for piece meal type work with Omni. Yippee! Like I stated, there are other vendors with more regular work opportunities that will provide more consistent remote work and even some in person work from time to time than Omniplex. I personally don’t believe Omniplex as a company is long for the road.
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I think you are spot on with everything! Tragically, but realistically. Great assessment from soup to nuts.