Can OPM do anything right?

In this week’s installment of their totally infuriating breach and breach response saga, it appears that they didn’t follow proper procedures in awarding a contract for ID theft monitoring services for breach victims. Jack Moore reports:

The in­spect­or gen­er­al of the Of­fice of Per­son­nel Man­age­ment says a $20 mil­lion sole-source con­tract to of­fer iden­tity-theft pro­tec­tion to mil­lions of hacked fed­er­al em­ploy­ees ran afoul of con­tract­ing reg­u­la­tions.

Of­fi­cials in OPM’s Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Op­er­a­tions vi­ol­ated the Fed­er­al Ac­quis­i­tion Reg­u­la­tion and the agency’s own policies in award­ing a $20.7 mil­lion con­tract to provide cred­it-mon­it­or­ing and ID-theft ser­vices, ac­cord­ing to a sum­mary of IG find­ings in­cluded in an Oct. 30 memo to act­ing OPM Dir­ect­or Beth Cobert.

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