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Council interviews three firms for New Carrollton compensation study; firms differ on audit depth and timelines
Summary
At a Feb. 2 special meeting, the New Carrollton City Council heard presentations from Gallagher, Capital T Solutions and PRM on an RFP for a citywide compensation, classification and audit study; firms outlined timelines (4—6 months to 6 months), audit scope and deliverables, and council asked about regional comparators and budget timing.
The New Carrollton City Council on Feb. 2 held a special meeting to interview three of six firms that responded to the city99s RFP for a comprehensive classification and compensation study.
Chair opened the meeting saying the council would review three proposals that night and the remaining three on Wednesday. The firms that presented were Gallagher; Capital T Solutions (a local CPA/consulting firm); and PRM Consulting Group.
Eric Sotana, managing director and national practice leader at Gallagher, described a CARES collaboration model and a suite of services that includes job-family frameworks, multiple job-evaluation methodologies, custom and published market data and implementation support. "We're part of Gallagher," Sotana said, adding the firm runs a national benchmarking library and typically completes studies in about "4 months" when expedited and commonly couches work as a six-month engagement.
Council members pressed presenters on regional experience and on how audits fit into phased work. Agnelli asked how Gallagher would conduct the wage-and-salary audit required by the RFP; Sotana said Gallagher integrates audit activities across classification, benchmarking and internal-equity work and that supplementary reports can be supplied before final delivery.
A representative of Capital T Solutions described a three-phase approach that begins with a comprehensive payroll and salary audit (the company said it would examine employee pay histories from June 2020 to present), followed by an organizational assessment and then a compensation study and policy development. The presenter said confidential, employee-level spreadsheets would be produced and that the firm typically prices job-description rewrites as an add-on at about $500 per job description, with discounts for volume.
Joshua, principal at PRM Consulting Group, outlined a five-step method (discovery, audit, organizational assessment, compensation program design and deliverables/implementation) and said PRM typically expects a roughly 16-week timeline. PRM emphasized Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and ADA compliance reviews, the need to identify peer jurisdictions by revenue and staff size, and the importance of producing materials that city staff can use for the June budget process.
Council members repeatedly asked about timing, the firms99 ability to deliver raw data (Excel) as well as PDF reports, and whether job-description rewrites were included. Presenters said they could provide behind-the-scenes data files on request and offered multiyear implementation scenarios where appropriate.
No selection or formal vote on a contract took place at the meeting; the chair said the council will hear the remaining three proposers on Wednesday and continue deliberations afterward.
