Davis-Bacon Federal Wage Determinations · • The 10 day rule and the 90 day rule – AK specific...
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Davis-Bacon Federal Wage Determinations
January 26, 2012 | U.S. EPA Region 10 Presented by: Miguel A. Flores
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• Wage Determination Basics– What is a Wage Determination?– Construction categories (schedules); use of multiple categories– How to look up a current federal Wage Determination– How to look up an old federal Wage Determination– Verifying Communities have used a ‘Prevailing Wage’
• The 10 day rule and the 90 day rule– AK specific projects; timing of bid vs. receipt of SRF funding
• Overview of EPA expectations for D-B compliance• Questions
Topics to be covered
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What is a Wage Determination?Wage Determination number
Date WD is effective
Date WD was replaced
Modifications
•Included in bid docs and contract•Effective the day project goes out to bid*
*subject to 10 day/90 day rule
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How to look up a current Wage Determination
link to DOL All Agency Memo 130 and 131
Selecting the Construction ‘Category’ (also known as ‘General Schedule’)
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How to look up a current Wage Determination
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How to look up a current Wage Determination
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How to look up an old Wage Determination
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How to look up an old Wage Determination
(Enter DBA WD numbers in the following format: two-letter abbreviation for the state, and the number of the WD. For example, DBA WD "VA030003" is entered "VA3"; DBA WD "MD030150" is entered "MD150")
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How to look up an old Wage Determination
Pop Quiz:If this project went out to bid on 7/05/11 and the bidding close date was 8/05/11, was the right WD used?
WD effective dates: 7/1/11 – 8/11/11
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10 day rule and 90 day rule
Project out to bid
Close of bid period
May 1 May 31 June 1
Bids are ‘opened’
Aug. 30May 21
90 days to sign contract
Any changes to WD up until 10 days before close of bid will need to be incorporated into bid docs/ contract
If contract is not signed within 90 days of bid open, the most recent modification to the WD prior to contract signing would become effective
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Documentation of Prevailing Wage Verification
Federal exceeds StateState
exceeds Federal
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Overview of EPA Expectations for D-B Compliance• State must specify in loan agreement that city must comply
with Davis-Bacon.• State must ensure that community has inserted the EPA
Davis-Bacon contract language (from the Grant condition) into the bid documents and the contract.
• State must ensure that community has included federal Davis-Bacon Wage Determinations in bid documents and contract AND that correct Wage Determinations are used.
• State must ensure that community has hung Davis-Bacon poster on site.
• State must ensure that community has conducted (AND documented) laborer interviews.
• Community must notify state that weekly certified payrolls are being submitted.
• State must ensure a prevailing wage has been paid.
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Questions?
Davis-Bacon Federal Wage Determinations