Assisted by a team of high-quality and experienced professionals, A.L. Consulting Group offers a comprehensive range of services to ensure that companies meet their diversity compliance requirements. Our services include: D/M/WBE Compliance Monitoring, M/WBE Outreach Pre-Bid, Subcontractor Vetting and Onsite Visits, Title VI Compliance Review, Certified Payroll Audits, and Information Technology Solutions.
A.L. Consulting Group Inc. provides consulting and compliance services to ensure that companies are able to show a “good faith” effort in meeting their diversity requirements. It is critical that companies performing public work projects establish a consistent and comprehensive “good faith” effort practice as a proactive measure to prevent goal short-fall during pre-bid, award, and post award phases.
Clients have utilized our award-winning Good Faith Outreach Model as a powerful marketing tool to help win public work projects. The benefit of having an approved good faith effort outreach program is that companies significantly minimize their risk and exposure. Rather than having to defend a government allegation of criminal wrongdoing for attempting to falsely attain contract goals, companies will at most face a rejection of their good faith efforts.
In many of the recent, high-profile M/W/DBE cases, the violating contractor has incurred harsh sanctions as a result of applying improper practices whose ostensible purpose was a claim that a certain percentage goal had been met. Whereas if the contractor had not tried to creatively circumvent regulatory requirements, but instead done the leg work and focused on good-faith efforts, it likely would have avoided the draconian penalties that were ultimately imposed.
Specifically, the application of our Good Faith Outreach Compliance includes:
Together with a team of highly experienced professionals A.L. Consulting Group structures a uniquely customized approach to each of our clients to ensure that they are applying the Good Faith Outreach Model and are in compliance with all applicable contracting regulatory requirements.
According to public contracting regulations, prime contractors are required to report to their Agency client monies paid from each monthly estimate to each DBE or M/WBE for the work performed in their certified areas (including, in the absence of payment, a report of zero monies paid).
A.L. Consulting Group offers payment reporting and tracking services which monitor payment reporting activity and track monthly payment made on 1st and 2nd tier levels. Payment tracking is continuous throughout a given project — since the prime contractor must report each DBE's actual payment (or the basis for a zero payment) until such time that the DBE has been 'finalized or closed out' for a project.
Our monitoring services ensure that only that portion of the payment associated with the performance of a commercially useful function by DBE's or M/WBE performing work in the area(s) for which they are certified gets reported.
As part of its compliance monitoring services, A.L. Consulting offers:
A.L. Consulting Group offers DBE assessment of firms seeking to do business with Governmental entities or Contractors. The concept is to determine the operational, financial and contract experience of firms to position these firms for success on contracts. We have performed over 100 assessment of DBE/M/WBEs firms. Features of our DBE Assessment program include:
A.L. Consulting Group is committed to providing objective expert support with one pur-pose in mind: to ensure that our clients' project goals and objectives are achieved. Both our public and private sector clients increasingly look for clearer identification of risks associated with Davis-Bacon, NY Labor Law 220. In response to this demand, A.L. Con-sulting Group has drawn upon its expertise to ensure that its clients avoid prevailing wage violations.
We offer online compliance reporting software to track client's workforce utilization requirements, payroll hours wage rate interviews, and certified payroll audit. These tools help client manage data with respect to Davis-Bacon and related regulations. Our services in this area extend to the following services:
A.L. Consulting Group provides technical assistance and management services to D/M/WBE firms in the areas of marketing, business planning, bonding, insurance and access to working capital. Capacity building is an important building block in D/M/WBE growth and development especially on mega public construction projects.
Our core program technical assistance assists qualified small businesses with certification, estimating, scheduling, BIM modeling, and transition from non-union to union. Our experience in this area demonstrates that agencies directly benefit by including A.L. Consulting Group's technical assistance in their Business Development programs.