AASHTOWare Project Civil Rights & Labor

AASHTOWare Project Civil Rights & Labor receives and processes the data required to meet federal and state requirements for civil rights and labor compliance activities. AASHTOWare Project Civil Rights & Labor is a web-based product offering that allows the effective administration of an agency’s external civil rights and labor compliance activities such as contractor payrolls and labor compliance, wage decisions, Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) certification, vendor data management, DBE commitments, On-the-Job Trainees (OJT) tracking and monitoring, subcontractor data and prompt pay tracking, Bidder/Quoter submittals, trucking types and tracking, interfaces with client/server, and contract compliance reviews. Functionality and security is also available to allow non-agency users (e.g. contractors and subcontractors) to access AASHTOWare Project Civil Rights & Labor to submit electronic payroll and subcontractor payment information. Non-agency users can also manage DBE commitments and Bidder/Quoter submittals.

Two tools are also available to assist contractors and payroll software companies in creating Extensible Markup Language (XML) formatted payroll files for import into AASHTOWare Project Civil Rights & Labor software: the AASHTOWare Project Payroll Spreadsheet and Conversion Utility and the AASHTOWare Project Payroll XML Developer’s Resource Kit.

Features

Effective Contract and Payroll Management

Effectively manage civil rights and labor compliance activities with monitoring and reporting functionality of prime and subcontractor data. Both agencies and contractors will save time and money with certified payroll submission and automatic error checking functionality

Secured Access

In order to promote consistency and transparency, external parties can access the application to view information and submit certified payroll data, bidder data, and proposed or revised DBE commitments. External entity access is restricted based on the agency protocols to secure sensitive data.

Compliance with Extensive Reporting Tools

The functionality to generate reports ensures agencies are meeting federal standards with several reports and the option to create custom reports. Examples of key base reports include the Uniform Report of DBE Commitments/Awards and Payments, Bidder’s List, End-of-Month Trucking, FHWA 1392, OJT report.

License

AASHTOWare Project Civil Rights & Labor requires licensing of AASHTOWare Project Preconstruction.

An annual license for AASHTOWare Project Civil Rights & Labor is available for purchase. Costs associated with installation, implementation, supplemental support, and training are the licensees’ responsibility. Service units may be purchased from AASHTO to cover installation, implementation, supplemental support, and training costs.

AASHTOWare Project Civil Rights & Labor may be obtained as part of the following bundled module and hosting license options. Bundled module and hosting license options are intended for member agencies who want to combine module licensing and hosting services licensing into a single license.

Bundled Option 1
This option includes license to the following modules and services:
  • Bids
  • Civil Rights & Labor
  • Data Analytics
  • Estimation
  • Preconstruction
  • Hosting Services
Bundled Option 3
This option includes license to the following modules and services:
  • Bids
  • Civil Rights & Labor
  • Construction & Materials
  • Data Analytics
  • Estimation
  • Preconstruction
  • Hosting Services

A 12-Month evaluation license is available for purchase. The evaluation license includes two Evaluation License Service Units of support at no additional cost. Evaluation License Service Units (ELSUs) are valid only for the one-year duration of the associated evaluation license. The licensee may use these ELSUs at its discretion to assist with installation, implementation and training activities during the evaluation period. Unused ELSUs units expire at the end of the one-year license period.

An evaluation license valid for up to 180 days can be obtained at no fee. The software provided is not a demonstration copy but the actual executable full-function current software release of the product. Execution of an Evaluation License Agreement is required. This no cost option is limited to one evaluation period per agency per product prior to licensing.