How to find your DIR project ID (PWC-100 number)

Where the number lives

1. The people who registered the job. The awarding body registers a project with DIR, according to DIR's Register a Project guide. Ask the general contractor or the awarding body's contract administrator for the DIR Project ID.
2. DIR's public project list. You can search it without an account. The steps are next.
3. Your own project dashboard. Once your company is linked to the project, DIR's Request Addition to a Project guide shows the ID beside the project name in your Active Projects list.

Search DIR's public project list

1. Open the Project Search page on DIR's Public Works portal. You can also reach it from the Search menu in the portal header. You do not need to sign in.
2. Type the awarding body's name, a word from the project name, or the contract number into the search box. If you already have the DIR Project ID, you can type that, but a very short ID may not return a result. If it does not, search by the awarding body's name or the project name instead.
3. Read the DIR Project ID column. The list also has Number, Project Number, and Contract Number columns. Do not copy the Number column. On many rows, including many whose Number starts with 2024, the Number and the DIR Project ID are different values (for example Number 20240419439, DIR Project ID 502665). On newer projects the two can be the same, but always copy what is under DIR Project ID. IDs vary in length. Older IDs can be as short as two digits, and DIR's Request Addition to a Project guide shows IDs such as 10, 100, and 1000 in its project list.
4. Match the row to your job. Compare the awarding body, project name, project number, and contract number with your subcontract.

Link your company to the project

Finding the ID does not put you on the project. To submit eCPRs, your company has to be on the project in your DIR account. DIR's FAQ says to create a user account, join or create an account for your contractor, and submit a request to join the project, and that a contractor needs an active DIR registration to make the request. If yours has lapsed, start with our guide to contractor registration. If the account steps fail, see DIR login and account problems.

Then follow DIR's Request Addition to a Project guide:

1. Sign in at services.dir.ca.gov/pw. Under Project Actions, click Link to a project.
2. In the box labeled DIR PROJECT ID or PROJECT NAME, search for the project and click it. The form also has a Contractor field, so check that it shows your company.
3. Submit the request. The project then appears in the Active Projects list on your main landing page, with a search bar above the list.

If you are also adding a subcontractor, check the box under Project Additions, search for the contract you are adding as a subcontractor, and submit. DIR says this adds the project to the subcontractor's dashboard as well as yours.

You are asking to join the project. DIR's FAQ says that if you are not getting approved by an awarding body, you should reach out to DIR Public Works with details of the issue.

If the project is not found

How long the awarding body has

Under Labor Code section 1773.3(a)(1), the awarding body must give DIR notice of the contract within 30 days of the award, and no later than the first day a contractor has workers on the job. Section 1773.3(a)(2) sets a different outside date for some contracts awarded under Public Contract Code sections 10122, 20113, 20654, and 22050: the last day a contractor has workers on the public work. A job awarded last week may not be listed yet. A crew already on site with no listing is the case to push on.

The penalties for late notice fall on the awarding body, not on you, under section 1773.3(h). Our PWC-100 guide covers the deadline and the penalty. Until the project is registered, DIR's FAQ says contractors and subcontractors cannot submit certified payroll for it.

Email to send the awarding body

Put the request in writing. Send it to the general contractor and the awarding body's contract administrator together, fill in the brackets, and keep the sent copy.

Subject: DIR Project ID for [project name], contract [contract number]

Hello [name],

[Company name] is a subcontractor on [project name], contract [contract number], for [awarding body]. We need the DIR Project ID to submit certified payroll to DIR. We cannot find the project in DIR's public project search as of [date].

Under Labor Code section 1773.3(a)(1), the awarding body gives DIR notice of the contract within 30 days of the award, and in most cases no later than the first day a contractor has workers on the job. Can you confirm whether the project has been registered with DIR, and send us the DIR Project ID?

If it has not been registered, please register it at services.dir.ca.gov/pw and tell us when it is done. Our first workweek on the job is [date].

Thank you,
[Your name]
[Company name], DIR registration number [number]
[Phone]

If the awarding body still has not registered the project, send DIR the same details and the date you first asked. Once the project shows up, see how to submit certified payroll to DIR.

Hand the lookup to us

Send the payroll export you already run, plus the DIR Project ID, or the awarding body and contract number if you do not have the ID yet. We check whether the project is registered before we prepare the DIR eCPR. If your contract calls for a WH-347, we prepare that too. DOL describes the WH-347 as the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts Weekly Certified Payroll Form for federal or federally assisted construction, and says using the form itself is optional. If the project is not registered, we tell you, so you can send the email above. A person reviews every filing, and you sign the certification. First filing free.

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