Case Study: Compliance Project Management

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Compliance Project Management
During the month of September 2015, the Compliance Officers (CO) continued to implement and monitor the DC Water Contracting and Employment Compliance program for the aforementioned projects listed above. The CO has been thorough in monitoring project activities on DC Water major projects on a weekly basis. The CO has maintained communication with primes and their subcontractors and encouraged them to them to contact the compliance team with any questions regarding project compliance reporting. In previous months contractors and subcontractors are more content with communicating with the Compliance Officer to provide contracting and employment guidance during the construction of each project, as required by DC Water. Such support has included, but is not limited to the following: Subcontractor Approval Request administration, addressing compliance issues/requirement inquiries and addressing Department of Labor (DOL) and other government
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of Engineers) conducts a quarterly audit on all federally funded projects at DC Water. In the month of September the COE (Corp. Of Engineers) conducted their audit of the ENRF-North project, this audit consist of reviewing employee interview data sheets, current wage determination and certified payrolls. The COE reviewed a sampling of skilled laborers, electricians and painters classifications along with certified payrolls from each company working on site during the quarter. The audit concluded with one request made by the COE in reference to Baytown Painting. Even though Baytown Painting identifies as participating in a funding program for fringe benefits on their payrolls, the COE requested to see the actual fringe benefit rate indicated in the payroll document. The CO sent an email to the prime contractor requesting that the subcontractor include this information on the weekly payrolls going forward, starting October 2,

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