Encantado is made up of:

• Edgewater Federal Solutions
• ECS
• Amentum
• IIA

The expected date for most incumbents who have received and accepted offer letters to become employees of Encantado is April 10.

Encantado is currently processing information provided during the initial incumbent identification process and is aligning individuals and their experience/qualifications to requirements of individual Task Orders.

As stated in the Town Halls held on February 11 and 16, we expect all incumbents, who have provided their information to us via the Encantado web site and have received and accepted an offer letter to be transitioned to the new contract on April 10.

Within the coming weeks, you can expect to be contacted by a human resources team member from one of the four partner companies to initiate the hiring process.

The approach for transitioning incumbents is to transfer individuals at their current salary and in their current role.  Any discussion related to salary or responsibility adjustments will be handled on a case-by-case basis after the projects have been transitioned to Encantado, and our management team has had the opportunity to assess each individual’s skills and abilities. However, you will have opportunities to earn additional compensation through merit bonuses, and out-of-cycle pay increases after 90 days at the discretion of your new operations manager.

The four Encantado partner companies have a long-established working relationship and experience managing and delivering across large enterprise projects. Accordingly, a culture of open communication and transparency already exists and will continue through the course of our tenure managing the Sandia project.

Encantado’s management philosophy is to manage the Sandia project as a badgeless operation.  Employees from each of the four companies will form integrated teams. Operational management will be provided by employees across our member companies.  Accordingly, individual issues that may arise should be addressed with the immediate line manager, who will coordinate the appropriate response.

Sandia services will not be segregated by member companies because Encantado’s management philosophy is to manage the project as a badgeless operation.

We do not intend to move individuals between companies once the transition is complete.

Shift differential and on-call pay will be addressed on an individual basis. Your company’s HR representative will be able to provide more information.

There will be a mandatory online training course, posted on our website, on how to complete timesheets and approve timesheets.

Yes. We will follow the Sandia holiday schedule and will observe 11 holidays. We will also observe the winter shutdown during the week between Christmas and New Year’s.

No. Whatever work schedule you have today, you will have tomorrow. If you’re interested in changing your schedule, that decision will be at the discretion of your manager.

No. If you are mission critical status now, that does not change.

If you have a HSPD -12 badge, your access to Sandia will continue as normal without any action on your part. That’s good news! You may, however, get an email saying your clearance is ready in the next few weeks. There is no action for you to take since you already possess the HSPD-12.

If you have an uncleared Local Site-Specific Only (LSSO) badge, commonly known as a grey badge or striped badge, you will need to visit the badge office before April 9th (preferably on a Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday) to obtain a new LSSO badge. Please follow the signage in the badge office and the COVID protocol when picking up LSSO badge.

There should be no changes to your access to the systems you use to perform your work at Sandia. You will, however, need to reauthorize your WebCARS shortly after transitioning to ETS. You can visit webcars.sandia.gov to see when your current relationship expires. You will need to reauthorize prior to the expiration of that legacy relationship.

We will hold interactive Corporate Orientation Activities run by each company’s HR department. These activities include an online kickoff meeting and follow-on online onboarding actions. Personalized invitations with more details were sent via email on 3/31 directly from your company’s HR department. If you have questions about company benefits, paychecks, timesheets, holiday schedules, and PTO, this is the event you don’t want to miss!

Encantado is made up of four companies: Edgewater Federal Solutions, ECS, Amentum, IIA.  Each company offers a similar, comprehensive benefits package that will be discussed with you at the time your offer is extended.

Each company’s benefits include:

• Medical
• Dental
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401(K) Matching
• Life Insurance
• And other ancillary benefits

You will be eligible for health benefits effective your first day of employment. But please work with your current employer to determine when your current coverage will end.

Upon separation from your current employer, your benefits with them will end.  However, you will be eligible for health benefits effective your first day of employment at your new company—one of the four Encantado partners. As with any new medical plan, you will have to restart your deductible.

We do not intend to move individuals between companies once they are transitioned to the Encantado team.  Should that happen in a rare case, you will receive similar benefits from the new company.

Across all four companies—Edgewater, ECS, Amentum, and IIA—employees will begin accruing vacation time immediately upon their hire date.

Additionally, we have aligned our 11 days of paid annual holidays to follow the Sandia holiday schedule. There is no probationary period associated with benefits or the ability to take Government holidays

To accommodate individuals’ plans for time off in the immediate future, Encantado will allow employees to accrue advanced leave up to 40 hours.

Our holiday schedule will follow the Sandia Holiday schedule covering the Energy Conservation date.

While your vacation balance will not transfer over, your years of service in support of Sandia National Labs will be used to determine leave accrual under your new employer. Check with your current HR department to find out if you will be paid out for any accrued but unused vacation upon separation.

SCA employees will receive vacation and sick time as dictated by the applicable Wage Determination (WD).

As a Service Contract Act (SCA) employee, you will receive a Health and Welfare fringe rate per hour which will go towards Health & Welfare benefits. You must have an eligible waiver to waive coverage. You will also receive sick leave as well as vacation per your applicable Wage Determination.