My workload has been pretty full lately in the southeast region, it’s definitely coming in at a slower rate though. I used to transmit one case and then get assigned 2 - 3 more the next day
Sadly, the environment is looking bleak. My workload has slowed down majorly and now i’m being told to take leave.
I have not had work in two weeks. I am an IC in the Southeast. I have asked for work anywhere in the Southeast without luck.
Are you still on leave?
DCSA has work for 2000 Investigators but issued 9700 new creds 1 Oct. The Contractors are going to have to regroup or no one will earn a full time salary again…
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How do you know that there is only work for 2000? That’s not much work.
That was the number DCSA threw out at the ACBI and my VP relayed in a recent staff meeting.
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I just heard a bunch of Perspecta Contract Investigators got an email today canceling their contracts due to lack of work in the foreseeable future…how many of you all did this affect?? Did they keep any CI’s??
Nationwide? No cancellation from 1Force so far.
That’s odd. Does it really cost them to keep us IC’s on the books? Other than PR’s when they come due.
They really don’t want to have any large RIF’s do they. Guessing they don’t want to pay out unemployment and are just hoping if they dole out enough LWOP that enough will quit.
Of course all just speculation on my end.
Oh well. This industry is dead for us BI’s for the foreseeable future. I guess I should be thankful that it paid the bills for over 10 years. Looking back I may have went a different career path though 
I thought it was weird too as the CI’s don’t cost much…but it happened to a friend that has been doing this a very long time (and is a great investigator). It would make more sense to me if they laid off FT investigators and kept the ICs. This whole industry is crazy and unpredictable right now.
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Are sure it’s Perspecta? I’m asking because SCIS “excused” some IC yesterday. As I commented in another post it is concerning. It would be easier to start processing out credentials and computers with IC first.
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It makes no sense to cancel IC’s contracts. Why would the vendors do that when it costs them nothing to keep us around except for a cheap 5 year PR which we all know these vendors get a major discount on to begin with otherwise Perspecta wouldn’t be hiring thousands of IC’s over the last four years.
It actually costs more to do business with an hourly employee Investigator than an IC. These companies have always had this whole thing backwards when doing business with hourlies over IC’s. The hourly has to be fed consistent work, is paid PTO, 401K, a medical plan, and taxes have to be paid on them. I’m still unsure why these companies even use hourly Investigators to begin with instead of just engaging with IC’s all of the time. The hourly also has to be TDY’d at great expense to the company when that individuals work dries up in his local area. Hotel, airfare, car rental, etc. are all a great cost.
I understand that IC’s don’t always take work offered to them but if you incentive the IC they will engage with these vendors and will complete the work.
The IC has always been the more profitable solution but apparently these companies like throwing money away.
I’ve heard OPM/NBIB in the past requires the vendors as a contractual requirement to retain a certain % of F/T hourlies to contractors on the contract but I don’t know how true that is. So I understand that there will always be a need for hourlies because of what is written in the contract. Obviously Perspecta’s business model is different than CACI as I believe that they have over 50% contractors vs. hourlies and CACI has no contractors they engage with. Different business philosophies. I’m guessing that Perspecta has higher profits than CACI because they use contractors to compete their work and avoid paying out the nose all of the costs associated with a F/T employee.
I could personally run these businesses than most of these 
in this industry who are in middle management and making these decisions.
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The only advantage of employees is that you can work them to the bone, force them to take any and all cases, require overtime, and forced TDYs when there is a ton of work in another area. I completely agree that it is cheaper to have IC’s, but you can’t make them do anything. While it does sound like Perspecta has started to have quality standards (They assign work based on quality scores with those with poor quality scores being the last to get work, if any), it still doesn’t make sense that they would just cut contractors when this low work environment is still relatively new.
I was just trying to see if anyone else was affected. My friend made it sound like it wasn’t targeted at him (he is actually a really good investigator) that these cuts were being made across the board. From this board, it doesn’t sound like there were massive cuts on the IC level…
I was a full time employee for 2 1/2 years. I just switched over to IC in september. Im in the DC area, there is no work for DCSA, but i did not receive a letter. Even full timers are slow on dcsa. The other contracts have work so maybe thats why im still working??? I listened to the meeting minutes from perspecta big wigs, (found it online). They stated the fourth quarter would be slow and things will pick up at the beginning of the year. DCSA is the one sorting things out and not supplying the work.
I just received a notice from Perspecta that they won’t be hiring me because they have no work in my area and a friend received the same yesterday. Maybe the rumor that Perspecta is getting out of dcsa is true. Good job finding the minutes online!!! Perspecta may have been blowing smoke knowing the minutes are public. There’s a lot of paranoia going around right now too.
The problem is over staffing. Perspective and CACI are all overstaffed. At the a CBI conference DCSA stated that the work could be done by about 2000 investigators. DCSA does not care how many investigators how many investigators the contractors have. The writing is on the wall and these companies are going to have to scale back because there is not enough backlog anymore to have 9000 investigators.
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Can you elaborate on the “meeting minutes?” What meeting? Can you provide a link? Thanks in advance.
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I was told by an upper echelon person that SCIS has about 600ish full time investigators, which may or may not be true. Do you have any idea how many full time investigators Perspecta and CACI have?
Perspecta has the most and I want to say CACI is like 1900 plus ISN
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