A/E Firm Overhead Rates 2025 – Houston
Hosted By:
LJA
3600 W Sam Houston Parkway S
Houston, TX 77042
October 28-29, 2025
8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
$850.00
Join us in the classroom where instructor Dan Purvine will teach you the most up-to-date information you need to know to properly develop and support your firm’s overhead rate. Whether you are new to the A/E industry or if you’ve been working on these issues for years, this course has something for you.
Roy Gonzales from TxDOT PEPS division will be in attendance and will lead a “TxDOT Q&A” session covering key topics related to the administrative qualifications (AQ) process and TxDOT review of A/E firm overhead rates. Understanding and properly applying the FAR rules is important to achieving fair reimbursement of your firm’s costs. Dan will cover the key risk areas you need to address to confidently support a FAR-compliant overhead rate and achieve state DOT approval.
Dan will begin the course with an overview of FAR Part 31 and government contracting issues typically encountered by A/E firms. He will also cover FAR allowability of costs, key labor costing and compensation issues, A/E firm internal controls, development of home and field overhead rates and a discussion of the changes made in the recent 2024 revision to the AASHTO Audit Guide.
For those of you performing audits or reviews of A/E Firm overhead rates, this course will provide insights into ongoing discussions at the national level regarding CPA audit quality, as well as best practices for effective and efficient audits.
Key Issues in A/E Firm Indirect Cost Rates 2025 – Irvine
Hosted By:
Baker Tilly
18500 Von Karman Avenue, 10th Floor
Irvine, CA 92612
November 13, 2025
8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
$425.00
A/E firm contracting with state and local agencies here in California, and the requirements to support your indirect cost rate, seem to get more challenging every year.
Join us in Orange County, California for this timely and informative course where instructor Dan Purvine will provide you the latest updates on key areas affecting A/E firm indirect cost rates and public sector contracts. Using an interactive approach, he will cover key risk areas related to developing indirect cost rates, including how to properly account for labor and compensation costs and how to evaluate costs for FAR allowability.
Topics will include treatment of uncompensated overtime, prevailing wage, and strategies to predict your overhead rate before year-end. Dan will also cover important financial documents required by Caltrans, and the status of ACEC California and Caltrans discussions on a range of topics. A discussion of local agency contracting and overhead related issues will help you to understand requirements and risks specific to contracting with local agencies in California.