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About Downing Consultants
Your Partner in Davis-Bacon Compliance
With years of experience in the industry, we are committed to delivering exceptional results that exceed our clients’ expectations.
We’re not just a consultant. We’re your compliance partner.
Hiring a Davis-Bacon consultant shouldn’t feel like calling a hotline and hoping for the best. When you work with us, you get a real relationship with someone who learns your business — how you’re structured, what types of projects you pursue, where your compliance process is strong, and where it’s vulnerable. We’re the call you make before you bid a federal project, when a subcontractor’s certified payroll doesn’t look right, or when you get a notice from the DOL and need to know what happens next.
Prevailing wage compliance isn’t a one-time fix. It’s an ongoing part of doing business on covered projects — and we’re here for the long haul, not just the paperwork.
our Mission
We started this practice because Davis-Bacon compliance shouldn’t be a guessing game.
For contractors doing federally funded work, the rules are real and the stakes are high — but clear, experienced guidance has always been hard to find and expensive to keep on staff. Our mission is simple: give Michigan contractors and their subs the same level of prevailing wage expertise that used to be reserved for big firms with big legal budgets. Straightforward advice, honest assessments, and a commitment to keeping your projects compliant from the first wage determination to the final certified payroll.
No upsells. No unnecessary complexity. Just the expertise you need, when you need it.
our Vision
A construction industry where prevailing wage compliance is a competitive advantage, not a liability.
Too many Michigan contractors leave federal and publicly funded work on the table because Davis-Bacon feels too complicated, too risky, or too expensive to manage. We envision a future where that changes — where contractors of all sizes have the knowledge and support to pursue prevailing wage projects with confidence, where subcontractors aren’t caught off guard by requirements they didn’t know applied to them, and where compliance is built into how a company operates from day one rather than scrambled for after the fact.
That’s the standard we’re working toward, one contractor at a time.