In category: Recruiting
Surviving an OFCCP Audit: The Recruitment Records You Must Be Able to Produce
On July 16, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget approved OFCCP's request to discontinue information collection 1250-0003, which held "the Supply and Service Scheduling Letter and Itemized Listing (collectively referred to as the 'scheduling letter')." That letter was the en… more
Labor Category Mapping: Why Your Cleared Req Cannot Pay What the Market Is Asking
Key takeaways On GSA contract 47QSMS26D0052, awarded 18 May 2026, a clearance-flagged Intelligence Research Analyst category gated at a bachelor's plus 8 years carries a year-one ceiling bill rate of $46.51 an hour. Another clearance-flagged category, Intelligence Research Spec… more
Getting a Facility Clearance: FCL Sponsorship, the Timeline, and What You Cannot Do Without One
One sentence in 32 CFR 117.9(a)(10) decides whether your company can hire a cleared engineer this year: "A contractor or prospective contractor cannot apply for its own entity eligibility determination." Someone else has to ask, and until they do, no employee of yours may touch c… more
SCA Wage Determinations: The Floor Under Every Cleared Support Contract Salary
On Revision 37 of wage determination 2015-4281, the line for Computer Systems Analyst II carries no wage. In its place the schedule prints "(see 1)" and routes you to a footnote. The same blank runs across Computer Programmer I-IV and Computer Systems Analyst I-III. What the sche… more
OCI Under FAR 9.5: The Rule That Can Disqualify the Cleared Candidate You Just Offered
Search the full text of FAR subpart 9.5 for the word "hire." It is not there. Neither is "employee," "employ," "hiring," "recruit" nor "staff," anywhere in its roughly 3,000 words, checked against acquisition.gov on July 21, 2026. All nine worked examples describe companies suppl… more