{"id":339,"date":"2015-12-11T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2015\/12\/11\/agency-slapped-for-mismanaging-data-security-contract\/"},"modified":"2015-12-11T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T20:15:00","slug":"agency-slapped-for-mismanaging-data-security-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/agency-slapped-for-mismanaging-data-security-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Agency Slapped for Mismanaging Data Security Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Which agency is causing an uproar?<\/strong>\u00a0The federal Office of Personnel Management. AKA &#8220;The OPM Breach of 2015&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did the agency mishandle the data breach?<\/strong>\u00a0A report this week from OPM&#8217;s Inspector General found 5 contracting irregularities when OPM awarded a $21M clean up the data breach contract.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 5 Government Contracting Problems:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:rgb(38,38,38);font-family:CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254);\">OPM did not offer a complete scope of the work<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:rgb(38,38,38);font-family:CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254);\">Conduced inadequate market research<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:rgb(38,38,38);font-family:CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254);\">had an incomplete acquisition plan<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:rgb(38,38,38);font-family:CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254);\">exceeded dollar limits on blanket agreements <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:rgb(38,38,38);font-family:CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254);\">Unreliable contract file<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/12\/10\/politics\/opm-data-breach-contract-improper-ig\/index.html\"><span style=\"color:rgb(38,38,38);font-family:CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254);\">CNN |\u00a0<\/span>OPM hit for mishandling data breach cleanup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Which agency is causing an uproar?<\/strong>\u00a0The federal Office of Personnel Management. AKA &#8220;The OPM Breach of 2015&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did the agency mishandle the data breach?<\/strong>\u00a0A report this week from OPM&#8217;s Inspector General found 5 contracting irregularities when OPM awarded a $21M clean up the data breach contract.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 5 Government Contracting Problems:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:rgb(38,38,38);font-family:CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254);\">OPM did not offer a complete scope of the work<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:rgb(38,38,38);font-family:CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254);\">Conduced inadequate market research<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:rgb(38,38,38);font-family:CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254);\">had an incomplete acquisition plan<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:rgb(38,38,38);font-family:CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254);\">exceeded dollar limits on blanket&#8230;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,16,18,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contracting-procurement","category-government-data-breach","category-regulatory-enforcement","category-regulatory-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}