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Practical knowledge for specialty contractors
Compliance, change management, project controls, and the data discipline that compounds across bids. Written for California specialty subs — owners, PMs, estimators, and the field.
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Buy out the material — a PO from the estimate to the lot
Build a purchase order from the estimate's material lines, issue it, receive the truck from the lot, and watch committed cost land on the budget the day the PO issues, not the day the invoice does.
DIR registration & renewal — California public works
Who needs to register, when annual renewal opens, and what STrOp checks before you bid a prevailing-wage job.
Import a DIR wage determination (and keep it current)
Load a California prevailing-wage determination — including its scheduled July-1-style increase — so your projects validate pay against the right floor, and refresh it when DIR reissues.
Prevailing wage rates — how to find the right one
Which rate applies to which worker on which project, where DIR publishes them, and how STrOp pulls the right one onto your timecards.
PWC-100 — is your public works project registered?
The awarding body's DIR project registration is what your certified payroll submits against — how to verify it exists, find the DIR project ID, and what to do when it's missing.
Schedule the crew week
Drag workers onto the week's work orders once, and the plan flows downstream — the field sees where to be, and the foreman's timecard starts from the crew you scheduled.
Set up the subcontract — parse the PDF into the fields the job runs on
Register the executed subcontract once, let Parse Contract read value, dates, retainage, and terms out of the PDF, review each field against its page, and flag what the contract makes due.
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