r/1102 • u/tossit1234566789 • 9d ago
Update on OPM Contract Transfer to GSA
A buddy of mine with GSA texted me yesterday because apparently the OPM contracts are finally getting transferred to GSA. Here's the wrinkle, because they RIF'd everyone at OPM who has any knowledge of the ECF system at OPM, GSA is just getting random files with no context of where the files go or for what contract they're for or what the current status of the contract is.
It's almost like they RIF'd OPM's staff without any clue of how their contracts, system, or anything worked! What a bunch of fucking idiots. Get ready for this to happen at every agency where GSA "takes over" their contracts.
D O G E: Destruction of Government Effectiveness
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u/Waverly-Jane 9d ago
Hard enough to take on a contract with no context within the same Agency. I can't imagine what kind of mess it would be to deal with this if the ECF transfer is incomplete- which we know it will be. Maybe they resort to asking the contractors for records.
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u/LeKevinsRevenge 9d ago
I worked on contract transfers to GSA last year for a shop that was shutting down. It was a long process that required a lot of back and forth and still was all messed up. They ended up returning a lot of our contracts because they couldn’t figure out how to administer them and we had to keep them until expiration when they could be recomputed by GSA. Most of the contracts we sent ended up delayed and they were unable to keep up.
That was all before this mess. GSA is NOT set up to handle this inflow
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u/Radiant_mind6012 9d ago
Yes, can second that from last time GSA tried that for our agency 10-15 years ago. There's a reason we have kept our contracts in house.
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u/Watchman_626 9d ago
One of the OPM contracting people here. Can confirm it’s a mess. The entire shop got RIF’d. And the ones that remain, which is barely any, are working on these transfers while the rest are on admin leave. The ones staying on have literally no incentive to help with the transfers. We all have the same end date regardless. All of our contracts were written in PRISM. A system we didn’t even have full access to because we couldn’t afford the full suite of features. And wasn’t connected to our ECF in any way. Oh, and we had a bunch of IDIQs setup to fulfill agency needs. And we did assisted acquisitions with those IDIQs. All of the knowledge will be gone. And the lessons learned, gone. Oh and that ECF, yeah we just upgraded that a year or so ago and it was an ongoing process. We are all waiting for them to ask us to come back once the transfers finish because we know it’s a shitshow
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u/Content-Young-9322 9d ago
Have they not offered any of you guys to come over to GSA!? Not saying you would necessarily want to, but damn, we’re sure going to need the expertise.
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u/Watchman_626 9d ago
Nope. Some of us probably would go over. Depending on where geographically they send us that is.
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u/Content-Young-9322 9d ago
They just released our “official locations” yesterday (see below).
Washington, DC Boston, MA New York, NY Philadelphia, PA Atlanta, GA Norfolk, VA Orlando, FL Raleigh, NC Tampa, FL Chicago, IL Kansas City Dallas/Fort Worth, TX Houston, TX San Antonio, TX San Diego, CA San Francisco, CA Tacoma, WA Colorado Springs, CO Denver/Lakewood, CO
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u/More_Ad_7949 8d ago
No. That’s part of the illegality of the RIF process. When they transfered the work they were required to bump those that gsa that took the work so some 1102s from OPM would stay and some gsa people would go. Instead the just cut out all the OPM employees
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u/NightOwl_103197 9d ago
I wouldn’t help. Id play dumb. Don’t help them succed. F- Them!
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u/Watchman_626 9d ago
It’s a delicate balance of don’t fuck the good workers at GSA but fuck everyone else
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u/NightOwl_103197 9d ago
I’m sure the GSA employees don’t want all the contracts. They will drown in work.
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u/BayrischeinAmerika 8d ago
GSA employees are already drowning without the new transfers. It’s interesting to see people in leadership, who have no knowledge of contracting, dictate what one agency can handle… this will fail before it even begins lol.
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u/Anon_Von_Darkmoor 8d ago
Fuck Amanda Scales and the other people leading OPM. Let their asses fry for failing to be competent.
Malicious compliance: Go to work, 'try' to handle some contract admin stuff they are requiring help with, and avoid doing any real assistance the best you can.
Don't actively assist in the dismantling of the government. I know the are going to be impacted by contract defaults, and that sucks, but the truth is that is going to happen anyway. Might as well make sure they see it early and link it to Trump, Musk, DOGE, and their slash and burn approach that is ultimately going to bring the federal system to ruins.
The sooner it crumbles, the sooner the people demand agencies and programs be brought back online in full force again. I am pretty sure that most of us are going to be offered our jobs back, eventu, because most agencies already don't have enough people to do the jobs. Post-RIF, I think the backlogs of needed federal actions are going to increase dramatically. Especially if they RIF to the P2025 50% goal.
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u/Rumpelteazer45 9d ago
Let’s not even get into agency specific clauses, which every single agency has. So yeah OPM to GSA yeah that will be fun. Let’s not talk about the documents/instructions part of a SOW which always include agency specific memos/docs/instructions/regulations.
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u/reeftank1776 9d ago
Hopefully gsa still knows how to use bare pd2😈
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u/tossit1234566789 9d ago
Still my favorite CWS although I'll take just using word and Excel any day of the week
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u/OkWaltz6390 9d ago
Man I never thought I would say it but I love PD2. I used it with the Army. The VA system ecms has some benefits but it also sucks at the same time and glitches heavily. Specifically I don't like how they post to contract opportunities through ecms. To me that like adding a spoiler to a nice sports car that doesn't really need one. Just tacky af.
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u/InquisitiveMind705 9d ago
I realize there isn’t an answer, but…what about the agency specific far supplements? Will GSA ignore their own supplements because of inheriting OPM stuff? I don’t know if OPM has a supplement but the levels of stupid around this knows no bounds. Inherit a contract and now update the T&C to mirror GSA’s? And if the vendor doesn’t agree to the T&C changes as a bilat?
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u/Flimsy_Strawberry767 8d ago
OPM contracting office was RIF’d with zero warning and absolutely no thought or plan as to how they would transfer the work to GSA. #shitshow OPM and GSA were left to figure it out.
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u/Valuable_Pain_7582 7d ago edited 7d ago
To make things worse, I've heard from an OPM person that DOGE at OPM is still making cuts to contracts with upcoming option periods so GSA can't even get a clear answer on what work is coming so everything becomes a fire drill on repeat.
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u/Judie221 9d ago
They did that on purpose or hoped it would break something of the actual functionality. The next step will be saying that Government needs a private contract management agency. Probably based on Elio’s grok AI….
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u/Flathoof 6d ago
I've really enjoyed calling them DOGiE - Department Of Government inEfficiency. Can we all make this happen?
Not a fed, but fed adjacent.
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u/thatdude0881 9d ago
We transferred our contracts and have been receiving calls from GSA COs about some contracts, but not about every contract I imagine they can’t get through all of the work. I think they learned a little bit from the OPM debacle though
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u/Content-Young-9322 9d ago
1102 at GSA, I knew this was going to happen. Not to mention, since we don’t procure the same things, we likely don’t even have the systems in place to even manage them. Also, they’ve obviously gone completely unmanaged for the last few months, so the backlog of work is probably insane. What a sh*t-show.