We're bidding a rooftop unit replacement at two campuses for an ISD here in central Texas. The bid packet came with the district's own prevailing wage schedule, the one they adopt under the state statute. Then an addendum dropped saying part of the project is paid with federal grant money, so now there's a Davis-Bacon wage determination attached too.
I went through both line by line. For sheet metal workers the federal rate is higher. For the electrician doing the disconnects, the district schedule comes out higher. The fringes are laid out differently on each one, which doesn't help.
Do I pay the higher of the two for every classification, or does the federal determination replace the district schedule once federal money touches the job? And does this mean two sets of certified payroll, one to the district and one to whoever checks the federal side?