Questions for Omniplex investigators

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I recently accepted an offer as a contract investigator for Omniplex and I have a few couple questions for any investigators who might work for them. Ill be mainly working UNI and Excal which is fine but I told them I would only be able to work extremely part-time and they seemed perfectly fine with it.

I just wanted to know how it works when it comes to choosing your own work, is it true you can literally choose whatever you want?

I don’t see myself having the time to conduct drawn out UNI subject interviews so I would probably just stick with records and sources, is that doable? The paperwork says I only need to work one item per quarter and it seems to good to be true.

I accepted the offer to supplement my income a little bit and also have something to fall back on, if for some reason things went south in my current position. Oh, and I suppose I missed being a background investigator. There, I said it.

I was also surprised to see that they pay for mileage on top of a very good hourly rate which is way way more than I was making at Perspecta.

Most of the threads on here regarding Omniplex are pretty old so I just wanted some insight as to what things are like for the company in 2020. Thanks in advance

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So even if I wanted to just do a few records or source interviews here and there and never touch an ESI that wouldn’t be an issue? I was told there is plenty of work in my area but I guess I’ll have to wait and see.

Also, how timely are they with pay?

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Choose to have the alerts sent to your phone by text and email so you get notifications immediately.

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They pay on Fridays. Depending on when you submit the voucher, it can be as early as the next Friday. I have never waited more than 10 working days.

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Good luck. I have always been amazed that anyone working independent on those contracts can make any money after the time it takes to fullfill all the unrealistic “requirements”.

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Thanks for the good luck! So far the paperwork I’ve been signing has a very very good hourly rate as opposed to a flat rate, the paperwork also states that the company reimburses for mileage, so this makes me happy. Either way I already work full time so this will be very part time for me, if I can make an extra couple hundred a month then it will work for me

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Hello sideshowbob,
Can you give any updates on your position with Omniplex? I just applied to be a BI, but am thinking maybe I should be applying as a contract investigator, or should I apply for both? I’m facing the cold hard fact that working for CACI/Perspecta/SCIS is no longer going to be stable.

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I was given an offer the first week of october and I filled out a bunch of paperwork they sent me but it has been crickets since, not a peep.

The hiring manager did tell me that the process would take at least a couple of months for me to get creds, but we will see.I can’t offer you advice on whether to apply for a full time position or a contractor as that is ultimately up to you and whatever works best for you. I plan on doing it very, very part time so the contractor route makes sense for me

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Bob

Did you have Creds prior to accepting?

Anyone care to share how it plays out to go from FT to contractor?

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I had Ice/cbp, bog and DCSA creds with perspecta but i turned them all in when i left the company in May, so there has been a few month gap since then with no creds.

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I went ahead and applied for both contract and full time.

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Anything is better than Perspecta!

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I became a contractor in 2010 after 8 years of being an employee with USIS. I did this in order to care for my father. It has many ups and downs. I had one month I made over 14K and I had some periods where I did not have work for over 3 months. If you want to live a stable life as a contractor, you’d better have income from another source which I did. I did like the “lone wolf” aspect of it and being able to control how much or how little work I wanted to take on.