About SCA Bid Pricer

What this is

SCA Bid Pricer does two things. It lets you find the wage determination that applies to a county and read what it actually requires, and it prices a labor mix against that determination at fully burdened rates — base wage, health and welfare, leave loading, payroll burden, overhead, G&A and fee.

The determinations themselves are public. What is not readily available is a way to go from “this determination applies to my county” to “this is what the work costs me per hour, fully loaded” without rebuilding a spreadsheet every time.

Why it exists

Pricing an SCA-covered bid is a job with three tedious parts. Finding the right determination. Mapping your own labor categories onto SCA occupation titles that nobody uses internally. Then building a burdened rate from a base wage, a fringe rate, a leave schedule and your own indirect assumptions — correctly, for every class, every time.

None of that is difficult. All of it is error-prone, and an error compounds across dozens of employees and five option years before anyone notices. The determinations also move during the year without anyone telling you, so work that was right when you priced it quietly stops being right.

Who runs it

SCA Bid Pricer is built and operated by one person, trading as Jorgenson Enterprises, based in Travis County, Texas. It is not a team, a venture-backed company, or a division of anything larger. Support emails are answered by the person who wrote the code.

That has an obvious downside and one real advantage. The downside is that it is a small operation, and you should weigh that. The advantage is that there is no support tier between you and the person who can actually fix something — if a rate is wrong, the report goes straight to whoever can correct it.

What it is not

Not a government site. SCA Bid Pricer is not affiliated with, authorised by, or endorsed by the U.S. Department of Labor, SAM.gov, the General Services Administration, or any other agency. Wage determinations are published by DOL and available free at sam.gov.

Not advice. Nothing here is legal, accounting or compliance advice, and using the site creates no professional relationship. We do not prepare, review or submit bids, claims, conformance requests or audit responses, and we do not act as your representative.

Not a forecast. Historical rate movement is a record of what happened. It is not a prediction of what determinations will do next, and it is not presented as one.

The determination incorporated into your solicitation is what binds you. Everything here is a convenience layer over public documents, and how that layer is built and checked is written up in detail rather than left to trust.

How it is paid for

This matters for judging whether the incentives point the right way, so it is worth stating plainly.

• The pricer is free and stays free. No account, no trial clock, no usage cap. Price as many bids as you like.
• Revision alerts are the paid product — $99 a month, currently $49 for founding subscribers. An email when a determination you follow is revised.
• No advertising trackers, and your data is not sold, rented or shared. Google Analytics counts visits and page views; it never receives what you type into the calculator. The full detail is in the Privacy Policy.
• The calculation runs in your browser. The labor categories, hours and wage assumptions you enter are not transmitted to us. Your bid is your business.

The revenue model is one subscription paid by people who find the alerts useful. There is no second business selling your data, and no incentive to keep you on the site longer than the job takes.

Getting in touch

support@scawages.com reaches a person. The most useful thing you can send is a rate that disagrees with the official determination — include the determination number and revision and it will get checked. Corrections are welcome and are not treated as complaints.