My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Oregon
I was working as a W2 employee for a contracting company that had me working at a government office. I had the same position for 11 years, using the same contracting company. Two months ago, I was told that my 3 year recompete was going to be occurring soon. Every 3 years, this government agency has a policy to open back up existing contract positions for a recompete. This gave me an opportunity to see if other vendors could offer a better rate. I found another vendor that was offering the same salary, but including vacation and paid holidays which I didn’t have before.
Prior to allowing this new contracting company to represent me, I insisted that they create an agreement document stating how much they were going to bill the government agency along with what they would offer me for salary. They did create that document with the information requested.
I agreed to let them represent me, and they submitted our proposal (I never got to see what numbers they actually submitted). Long story short, because the rates they submitted were too high, I was never shortlisted and wasn’t even able to interview for my own position (historically, a vast majority of recompete incumbents are rehired). Needless to say I was shocked.
The government agency won’t tell me what rates the contracting company submitted, in our agreement, we have a backup plan of using my existing rate to ensure I should have been selected. Based on conversations with the government office, I’m under the impression that the contracting company never did submit me at that rate.
I’m wondering what my legal options are?
I’ve submitted a FOIA request with the government agency requesting documentation showing what rates were submitted by this company on my behalf. I’ve read through all of the paperwork I filled out with them, it doesn’t say anything about them having the right to submit any rate without notifying me.
Any thoughts?
THanks in advance for taking the time to read this and posting any information you think may help!
As you can imagine, losing a job I’ve had for 11 years because this company decided to try to squeeze more money out of the contract has been a pretty rough pill to swallow.

