Compliance, funding, and disbursements — secured end to end.
Scertifi specializes in complete management of Davis-Bacon compliance, Cargo Preference, and funding documentation on federally financed projects. We handle certified payroll reporting, subcontractor coordination, disbursement requests and direct submission to oversight agencies. Keep your project schedule and draws on-time. Eliminate paperwork from your critical path.
Dept. of Labor
Dept. of Energy
Dept. of Transportation
Maritime Administration
Dept. of Commerce
General Services Admin.
The lender's documentation standard, applied to the field every week. Two disciplines that rarely sit under one roof.
Most compliance support is funding-side advisory, or field-side payroll monitoring. Scertifi runs both as a single operation. Our compliance management extends beyond consultant memos, bringing the capability and scale of a full compliance department to your project without having to manage in-house. Our team has long-standing relationships with government agencies, multi-state and multi-agency experience with megaprojects and extensive expertise in managing complex ranges of requirements.
The full scope of federal compliance, one workflow.
We map your funding and labor obligations, build a defensible workflow around them, and run it week after week — so your records hold up under internal review, lender diligence, and agency audit.
Labor compliance management
- Weekly certified payroll review and validation
- Subcontractor coordination and discrepancy resolution
- Davis-Bacon reporting and process support
- Wage determinations, classifications, corrective actions
Funding & documentation controls
- Agency-ready compliance package preparation
- Documentation aligned to financing conditions
- Record architecture for internal and external scrutiny
- Reporting tied to disbursement and oversight cycles
Managed compliance operations
- Defined handoffs, escalation paths, and review cadence
- Surge capacity during peak project phases
- Response to DOL, state, and federal agency requests — including audits
- Contractor suspension and debarment verification
Cargo Preference Act compliance
- Development of compliant shipping plans
- Arranging of U.S.-flag shipping
- Ongoing monitoring and reporting of shipping movements
- Procurement of waivers
Our operating model
Map the obligations
We identify every obligation tied to your funding conditions, labor standards, reporting, and documentation — and where each one is exposed.
Structure the workflow
We build the workflow around them: records, handoffs, escalation paths, review cadence, and clear ownership boundaries.
Run it, week after week
We own the recurring execution — payroll review, subcontractor follow-up, discrepancy resolution, package prep, and agency-ready reporting.
From kickoff to a running compliance operation.
No teardown of work already underway. We stand up the system, take over the recurring load, and report on a cadence your lender and agency can rely on.
Stand up the system
We build the project compliance database, create contractor logins, and issue notices of requirements — so reporting can begin without delay.
- Project & subcontractor setup in the compliance system
- Wage determinations and classifications loaded
- Rapid review of any process already in place
Review, return, resolve
Certified payrolls are collected and reviewed every week. Incorrect payrolls are returned with specific corrections, and subcontractors are supported through resolution.
- Validation against wage determinations and the SOV
- Discrepancy resolution on the record
- Subcontractor follow-up and guidance
Report on a reliable cadence
Compiled reports are submitted to agencies on schedule, and on-site worker interviews are conducted and logged against payroll records.
- Agency-ready reporting packages
- On-site interviews cross-checked vs. CPRs
- Section 3 and EEO tracking kept current
An audit-ready file, always
Project-wide labor and wage data is captured, validated, and archived continuously — so the complete record exists the moment anyone asks for it.
- Continuous data capture and validation
- Defensible archive for audit and diligence
- Clean handoff of records at closeout
How we contain the risks to project funding.
On federally-financed projects, the threat is rarely a single mistake. Documentation and reporting gaps compound quickly and uncaught errors lead to discrepancies that then become investigations and audits. These are the situations that put a project's schedule behind and delay funding draws. Scertifi secures your project from these risks on a variety of levels before they reach funding agencies.
A DOL audit lands mid-construction.
A disbursement is held over subcontractor payroll.
A wage classification is disputed at scale.
Davis-Bacon reporting falls behind.
Records can't be produced on demand.
The audit arrives, and the file is already ready.
Because every certified payroll has been reviewed weekly, every discrepancy resolved on the record, and every document filed to a consistent architecture, an audit request becomes a retrieval task — not a scramble. We coordinate the response, produce the documentation, and handle agency communication directly, so the project keeps moving while the audit is satisfied.
We reconcile the payroll before it ever stalls the draw.
Disbursements stall when subcontractor CPRs don't reconcile against the schedule of values or wage determinations. We catch those breaks in the weekly review, return incorrect payrolls to subcontractors with specific corrections, and confirm the package is clean before it reaches the lender or agency — so the funding stays aligned with the work in place.
We resolve the classification with the determination behind us.
On a multi-thousand-worker site, a single misclassification multiplies fast. We manage wage-determination reviews, conformance and classification requests to the DOL, and the corrective back-pay process — documented end to end — so a dispute is settled on evidence rather than escalated into a finding.
Reporting stays current because it never leaves our cadence.
Davis-Bacon and labor-standards reporting are run on a fixed monthly cadence with on-site worker interviews cross-checked against payroll. The obligation doesn't drift because it never depends on an already-stretched internal team remembering to file.
Every record is captured, validated, and audit-ready from day one.
Labor and wage data is captured continuously, validated against classification rates, and archived in a system built for federal scrutiny. When internal review, lender diligence, or an agency asks for the file, it exists — complete, consistent, and defensible.
Fluent in the systems your funding requires.
Different programs and agencies mandate different certified-payroll systems. We operate across them, so the system your financing requires is the system we run — with the depth of a team that does this every day.
The system DOE directs its recipients to use for weekly Davis-Bacon payroll — and one we have worked with daily for more than a decade, with a direct relationship to the platform and the company behind it.
- 90+ automated validation checks on every payroll
- 100+ report formats and e-signature CPR collection
- Workforce tracking and daily-log cross-checks
- Batch CPR generation and long-term archiving
- Elation Systems
- eMars · eComply
- B2Gnow
- AASHTOWare Project Payroll
- State prevailing-wage portals
At the end of an engagement, the certified-payroll system contract can be assigned directly to you. The records and the system stay with your project.
Built for projects under real oversight.
If your project carries federal funding and the scrutiny that comes with it, this is the environment Scertifi was built for.
Energy & infrastructure
Large energy and infrastructure builds — often backed by DOE loans, IRA incentives, or utility financing — where disbursement is tied to clean, defensible compliance records.
Advanced manufacturing & industrial
Semiconductor fabs, EV and battery plants, critical-minerals sites, and large industrial builds funded through programs like the CHIPS Act, DOE loans, and IRA incentives — with heavy labor-standards obligations and multi-tier subcontractor reporting.
Large-scale construction
Major programs coordinating many subcontractors under Davis-Bacon prevailing-wage and certified-payroll requirements, including data-center and mission-critical builds.
Transportation & maritime
Highways, transit, ports, and shipyard projects financed through DOT and MARAD, including cargo-preference oversight.
The questions serious operators ask first.
Scertifi is not a teardown. We add expertise and surge capacity exactly where the process is most exposed. At Scertifi, we can relieve your team of compliance monitoring, reporting, subcontractor coordination and communication with oversight agencies or we can supplement your team by taking over the recurring load during peak phases so your team isn't over-extended when volume spikes.
The full compliance record is yours. We maintain it in an established, federally compliant certified-payroll system, and at the end of an engagement the system and its records can be assigned directly to you — so there is no lock-in and no gap in your audit file.
Onboarding runs in the first one to two weeks: we stand up the project database, create contractor logins, issue notices of requirements, and run a rapid review of anything already in place. Weekly payroll monitoring begins as soon as the system is live — no waiting for the next reporting cycle.
Requirements shift, and our cadence absorbs it. We track wage-determination updates, conformance and classification changes, and evolving agency reporting formats — adjusting the workflow rather than scrambling. The point of owning the process is that change is handled inside it.
Pricing is structured by role and scaled to the project's workload. We typically work to a fixed, monthly-hours structure that fits your budgeting so there are no unexpected price fluctuations throughout the project. We scope the work precisely on the first call against your project's actual obligations.
Book a Consultation.
A short, direct conversation about your project, your current process, and where Scertifi can take work off your team — starting with the areas most exposed to risk.
- No obligation, and no teardown of work already underway.
- We start where the risk is highest, not where it is easiest.
- You keep authority and oversight — we carry the execution.
Prefer email? Reach us at team@scertifi.com