Our Story
We built the tool we needed when a DOL investigator showed up unannounced
Alexa managed payroll compliance and fringe benefit administration for a federal services prime in the DC metro area before founding CVRD Health in 2024. The audit that started everything involved three contracts, two different wage determination schedules, and a compliance spreadsheet that was six weeks out of date.
CVRD Health at a Glance
Why We Exist
The compliance failure no one talks about
Federal contractors face a peculiar compliance problem: the rules are published, the requirements are explicit, and the penalties are severe, but the tooling to actually meet the requirements is a decade behind where it should be. Most govcon payroll teams are doing DOL compliance with spreadsheets built on top of ERP systems that were designed for commercial payroll.
The Service Contract Act requires you to pay each employee class the wage rate on the applicable wage determination for that contract. That determination can change when the contract is recompeted. It varies by locality. And when an employee works across contracts in a single pay period, you need to track their fringe benefit equivalency per contract, not just in aggregate.
CVRD Health exists because govcon payroll compliance is a deterministic problem. The rules are clear, the data exists in your systems, and an AI can apply them precisely every pay period. It shouldn't require a dedicated compliance analyst to avoid back-pay liability.
What We Believe
Principles that guide the product
Accuracy over speed
A WH-347 report submitted two days late is a paperwork problem. A WH-347 report with wrong wage rates is a back-pay liability. We optimize for correctness first.
Show your work
Every determination is logged with the source wage determination, the mapping logic, and the fringe calculation. If an investigator asks, you hand them the audit trail, not a reconstruction.
Fit into existing workflows
We don't ask contractors to change their payroll system. We read from what they already have. The output lands where their contracting officers already expect it.
The Team
Built by people who've lived govcon compliance
No one here came from a general HR tech background. Every team member spent time in the federal contracting world before joining CVRD Health.
Alexa Baggio
CEO, Co-Founder
Managed payroll compliance and fringe benefit administration at a federal services prime in the DC metro area before founding CVRD Health. She led the internal response to three separate DOL compliance reviews and built the spreadsheet-based fringe tracking system that CVRD Health replaces.
Marcus Teele
Head of Compliance Engineering
Spent his career building payroll and labor-law data pipelines, most recently at a federal workforce solutions firm. At CVRD Health he designed the wage determination mapping engine and the multi-contract fringe allocation model.
Diane Korsgaard
Customer Success Lead
Comes from a govcon staffing firm where she owned SCA compliance across a portfolio of service contracts. She manages onboarding, initial contract mapping setup, and ongoing support for every CVRD Health customer.
Ready to see CVRD Health on your contracts?
Bring a contract number and a payroll period. We'll run the full workflow on your actual data.