Contractors worked on GSA's $50B telecom transition without background check approval

FedScoop: At least 15 contract employees tasked with helping agencies transition to the government’s new $50 billion telecommunications contract lacked required security clearances, an inspector general’s audit found.

In a June 29 memo to Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Alan Thomas, the General Services Administration’s IG outlined how contractor staff working in the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions’ (EIS) Transition Ordering Assistance (TOA) program provided more than $675,000 worth of work despite not having attained the proper background check clearances to do so.

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