Terms of Service

Effective date: 2026-10-16. Last updated: 2026-10-16.

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of Government Construction Expert at governmentconstructionexpert.com ("the Service"), operated by GCExperts LLC. The Service concerns certified payroll (WH-347) compliance for federal construction contractors. By using the Service you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

What the Service is

Government Construction Expert is a certified-payroll preflight. You enter one week of payroll lines for a Davis-Bacon-covered construction project and the Service checks them against the U.S. Department of Labor WH-347 certified payroll statement and its published instructions — the worker identifying number, the work classification, the base rate, hours worked, overtime, and the completeness of the statement of compliance. It returns a corrected export and a list of anything that needs fixing.

What the Service is not

The Service is not legal, accounting or payroll advice, and it is not a determination by any government agency. A preflight catches the completeness, identifier and formatting problems that can be checked mechanically; it does not guarantee that a prime contractor, a contracting agency or the Department of Labor will accept a submission. You are responsible for the accuracy of the information you enter and for filing on time. Government Construction Expert is an independent service and is not affiliated with the Department of Labor or any other government agency.

The full-SSN rule

The Service refuses any submission containing a full nine-digit Social Security number and returns an error citing 29 CFR 5.5(a)(3)(ii)(B). That rule requires the weekly transmittal to carry an individually identifying number, such as the last four digits of the Social Security number, and prohibits full Social Security numbers, last known addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses on the transmittal. You must not enter those items through the Service, and the Service does not ask for them.

Accounts

You must provide a valid email address to create an account, keep your password confidential, and tell us about any unauthorised use. You can recover access with the emailed password-reset link on the sign-in page. You may delete your account at any time by emailing [email protected].

Pricing and payment

The certified-payroll preflight is free. The optional Filing Desk membership is $39 one-time, shown before you pay and processed by Stripe. A purchase is a one-time payment for the Filing Desk as described on the pricing page; it is not a subscription and it does not renew automatically. We may change the price for future purchases, and we will show the price before you pay.

Refunds

If you are not satisfied with a Filing Desk purchase, email [email protected] within 14 days of purchase and we will review a refund. Refunds are made to the original payment method. This does not limit any non-waivable right you have under applicable consumer law.

Data you submit and data we hold

You keep ownership of the payroll information you submit. You grant us the limited right to store and process it to run the preflight and, for Filing Desk members, to keep a filing history you can re-export. We hold submissions as described in the Privacy Policy: free submissions for 12 months, and a member's saved history while the account is active, with deletion on request. Where an agency or the Department of Labor is entitled to access a certified payroll, we will handle that request as described in the Privacy Policy. Do not submit data you are not authorised to share.

Marketing email consent

When you submit the preflight or the EM 385-1-1 edition check you may tick a box to accept our email marketing terms. That box is not pre-ticked, and ticking it is a distinct, affirmative action by you. If you tick it, you consent to GCExperts LLC and its associated properties and publications emailing you about Government Construction Expert and their other products, services and offers. We keep a record of the wording you accepted, when you accepted it, and a one-way hash of your IP address, so we can show the consent was given. You can withdraw this consent at any time using the unsubscribe link in any marketing email (or by replying with the word "unsubscribe"), and it takes effect for future messages. Giving this consent is not a condition of using the Service. This property does not collect a phone number, and we do not call or text you for marketing.

Acceptable use

Do not use the Service to submit information you are not authorised to submit, to attempt to break or overload it, to scrape it at scale, or to misrepresent a preflight as an agency determination. We may suspend or end access that abuses the Service.

Availability

We work to keep the Service available, but it is provided "as is" without warranties. The WH-347 checks are based on the DOL form and instructions current at the last check shown on the site, and we monitor the source for changes.

Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential losses, and our total liability arising from the Service or from a Filing Desk purchase is limited to the amount you paid us. Nothing in these Terms limits any liability that cannot be limited by law, and nothing here makes GCExperts LLC responsible for a determination that only a contracting agency, the Department of Labor or a prime contractor can make.

Changes

We may update these Terms. Material changes will be reflected by the effective date at the top of this page, and continued use after a change means you accept it.

Contact

Questions about these Terms can be sent to [email protected]. Government Construction Expert is owned and operated by GCExperts LLC.

Government non-affiliation

Government Construction Expert is owned and operated by GCExperts LLC and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the U.S. government or any federal agency. Government Construction Expert reports and links to public information; it is not a government service.

Sales tax

Sales tax: GCExperts LLC handles applicable sales tax in accordance with the tax laws of your jurisdiction.