GSA likely will miss OMB’s Oct. 27 deadline to issue ID cards to all contractors and employees with fewer than 15 years of federal service, the agency’s inspector general has said.
It said GSA has already met deadlines for issuing operating procedures and for the production of a "PIV II" compliant card, as set out in homeland security presidential directive-12 which calls for the establishment of a common standard for identification credentials to be utilized by all federal employees and contractors to gain physical and logical access to federally controlled facilities and information systems.
GSA set up a project management office within the CIO’s office to manage implementation and subsequently the federal acquisition service launched an HSPD-12 "managed service office" to utilize competitively selected contract vehicles for project, acquisition and financial management, according to IG report A060195.
It said the agency is making progress with processing employee and contractor background investigations, developing plans for logical and physical access, and updating its general HSPD-12 policies.
The agency is going to miss the deadline for issuing cards because of a late award of a MSO service contractor and limited PIV production capability for that contractor by the deadline, the report said.
It said other obstacles include the lack of a detailed HSPD-12 implementation plan and the absence of a centralized database capturing GSA- wide contractor information, and called on GSA to the PMO manager and HSPD-12 stakeholders to work together to establish a detailed implementation plan outlining how GSA plans to implement the directive in its entirety and establish a contractor identity management system, while expediting background investigations for embedded contractors.
