Jenkins Nexus failure "Could not verify application public id from IQ server"

Question

Receiving the following error in Jenkins in the test step: (blocked out application name using *'s)

com.sonatype.nexus.api.exception.IqClientException: Could not verify application public id from IQ Server
    at com.sonatype.nexus.api.zz.ey.verifyOrCreateApplication(SourceFile:87)
    at com.sonatype.nexus.api.iq.IqClient$verifyOrCreateApplication$0.call(Unknown Source)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:48)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:113)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:125)
    at org.sonatype.nexus.ci.iq.IqPolicyEvaluatorUtil.evaluatePolicy(IqPolicyEvaluatorUtil.groovy:61)
    at org.sonatype.nexus.ci.iq.IqPolicyEvaluatorUtil$evaluatePolicy.call(Unknown Source)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:48)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:113)
    at org.sonatype.nexus.ci.iq.PolicyEvaluatorExecution.run(PolicyEvaluatorExecution.groovy:50)
    at org.sonatype.nexus.ci.iq.PolicyEvaluatorExecution.run(PolicyEvaluatorExecution.groovy)
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.SynchronousNonBlockingStepExecution.lambda$start$0(SynchronousNonBlockingStepExecution.java:47)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Caused by: com.sonatype.nexus.api.zz.r: ******* is already used as a name.
    at com.sonatype.nexus.api.zz.m.verifyStatusCode(SourceFile:29)
    at com.sonatype.insight.brain.client.AbstractRequestClient.parseResult(SourceFile:23)
    at com.sonatype.insight.brain.client.ConfigurationClient.verifyOrCreateApplication(SourceFile:69)
    at com.sonatype.nexus.api.zz.ey.verifyOrCreateApplication(SourceFile:84)
    ... 16 more

The application is already in Nexus IQ and I am not sure as to why it is not picking up that it is the same app. We are currently using the Nexus Platform plugin version 3.8.20200310-130318.c482b58 . I have never come across this error, and was unable to locate any other solutions to this. Any tips or guidance would be greatly appreciated.