Federal vendor with $50M in contracts leaves portal broken for a month

The Office of Personnel Management's FOIA portal, operated by a federal vendor that has received over $50 million in contracts, was left broken for an extended period after the vendor's name changed. The breakdown is part of a broader collapse in the agency's public records operations, as over 600 government information specialists were laid off or resigned following budget cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency, resulting in a sevenfold increase in FOIA request backlogs and processing times that doubled to over 84 days.