Rumors that CACI Lost DCSA Contract

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Just an update - nobody (and I mean nobody, not even top performers) has had a single item of work since Thursday of last week. Upper management is radio silent and SLs are still taking leave.

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Has anyone had active military duty cases in October? Has anyone heard if there is a hold on these cases? I donā€™t see how everyone can be put into CE, but it seems weird that in a DOD area there are absolutely no military cases being put out to the field. Just wondering if it is my area or something that everyone is noticing? Again, I think the work will pick up IF these cases start coming backā€¦

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It is amazing the level of investigator that CACI has let float for years without producing any work. I think they were still operating under the assumption that the more investigators they had on staff the more work that would come their way. But that all really changed with the new focus on DIP. Those investigators that canā€™t turn over cases were hurting entire orgs from getting any work. CACI should have gotten rid of those investigators long before the slow downā€¦CACI needs to cut the fat and I think they are waiting until the PMR to do one dramatic cut (that should have been done a long time ago, but they were greedy).

It is interesting to me how hard it is to fire a person in the BI industry. They would rather float a bad investigator than to just fire that person. And if they want to fire the person, they have to put the person through enormous amounts of extra training and PIPs to try to get that investigator to work before finally letting them go. When I was at SCIS, I think my boss fired one person when there were at least 5 that needed to go badly. For some reason they just like to keep bodies around. Doesnā€™t make financial sense to meā€¦but I think all these companies are realizing that nowā€¦

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Not true. I have gotten work assigned Friday and Saturday. Not a ton of work, but cases have been still coming in.

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Cases are still coming in and being assigned, albeit very few. However, it is still coming in. Looks like itā€™s just coming down to your area and tier ranking right now.

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SCIS laid off 5% of their investigators yesterday and I suspect CACI will begin layoffs following the 11/8/19 meeting with DCSA. CACI is overstaffed now that the backlog is gone and will probably need to downsize unless they have already had a significant number leave. They should have been paying attention to what was going on regarding the backlog and scheduling, but it seems as though they could not resist the temptation to hire credentialed investigators from other contractors. Additionally, they were still training new hires as recently as September 24th. If you have not seen the DOD industry metrics posted on the blog on 10/16/2019; you should take a look. They show the steady decrease in the backlog from June 2018 to August 2019 and give insight into important data such as the number of cases scheduled each month. Not a pretty picture.

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I have on average 1 case a day assigned. Could be a simple record or source. Burning through my well needed vacation hours fast though

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I am at full capacity. Got more items today. Lots of T3 TESIs and T5 PRT cases.

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Thatā€™s all well and good! But do you send the trend? Thatā€™s not going to last!

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Where in the US are you located that has that much work?

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Can I have some of you workā€¦ :laughing:

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Maybe it wonā€™t last but I was just responding to the hysterics that NO ONE is getting a single item of work. Itā€™s just not true.

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I am in the Northeast region

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I understand you likely donā€™t want to say where you live/workā€¦but do you live in an area that us usually really heavy with work? Have you been low with work at all in the last couple months or have you always had work?? Are these military cases or DOD industry cases? Just trying to gauge what is going onā€¦

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What Company are you with? Thanks

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I too have a ton of cases. Contract investigator in the Sun Belt. The typical mix of T3, T4, T5. My area was always busy, but weā€™ve gone this year from really being able to pick or work to taking what is given. The cases are military recruits, current service getting upgraded, public trust for various gov agencies and contractors, and DOD contractors. They are all very new cases.

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I am also pretty fully loaded up right now. Midwest.

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I work for CACI. We were slow last spring but I never had to take PTO for hours. Most of my work is entry military DOD T3/T5 cases. Most have SDs of 10/19

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Wow, SCIS continues to advertise on LinkedIn that they are hiring.

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GDIT did that too right up until the end. Found out they simply forgot to remove the postings.

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