Fringe compliance and benefits administration, built for government contractors.

CVRD is a fringe compliance and benefits administration platform built for federal contractors with prevailing wage obligations. We track every fringe dollar per employee, per contract, per wage determination in real time, administer the benefits those dollars fund, and keep your records DOL audit-ready. We can administer ICHRAs and group benefits in any combination to support your fringe and benefit structure.

Federal contractors with SCA or Davis-Bacon-covered workforces. If you have hourly employees on government contracts and a fringe obligation someone on your team or a legacy TPA is reconciling by hand every period, you're who we built this for. Most of our clients run between 100 and 5,000 employees. CVRD can work with your prevailing wage population and your entire population for benefits and ICHRA administration (either or both). We recognize the importance of one platform experience and while we're built for contractors we have an experience that works for all!

Paying fringe and administering it correctly aren't the same thing. The gaps we see most: obligations tracked in spreadsheets across multiple contracts and wage determinations, employees with no visibility into what they've earned, excess fringe that misses the 90-day window, and records that wouldn't hold up in an audit. Most contractors find out there's a problem when an employee complains or a DOL letter arrives. In addition, paying fringe and ensuring your costs are contained are also not the same thing.

It's legal, but it's the most expensive way to satisfy the obligation. Every fringe dollar paid as wages carries FICA, FUTA, workers' comp, and often overtime, so you spend meaningfully more than the wage determination requires, and your employee loses another share to income tax. The same dollar delivered through a bona fide benefit is tax-free on both sides. However, lots of our clients pay cash in various combinations and we can help regardless of your current or desired strategy.

Sometimes. If your covered workforce is small, the savings and admin relief may not outweigh the cost of switching. And if you already have a structure you're happy with, fringe spend under control and records you'd feel good handing to an auditor, there may not be much for us to unlock. We'd rather tell you that early than put you through an implementation that doesn't pay for itself.