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February 11, 2014 By AMK

OPM: Contractors will no longer review their own background checks

The federal government will no longer use contractors to review the quality of their own background checks, instead relying on its own employees to do the audits.

Office of Personnel Management Director Katherine Archuleta said in a statement on Thursday that she would make the process ”fully federalized” starting on Feb. 24. “This decision acts as an internal quality control preventing any contractor from performing the final quality review of its own work,” she said.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/02/07/opm-contractors-will-no-longer-review-their-own-background-checks/?wpisrc=nl_fed 

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: background check, Justice Dept., OPM, security, security clearance

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