Service rates

Our hourly chargeback rates include the costs of:

• hourly wages
  • including supervisory wages, provisional pay and premiums
  • excluding management wages, overtime and termination payouts
• time off
  • including backfill for vacation, sick time and training
• preparation and clean-up (time spent in trades shops cleaning up and preparing for jobs)
• vehicles and equipment
  • including replacement, repairs and fuel
• administration
  • administrative support wages directly related to chargeback work
• employee benefits (charged to ancillary and agency clients only)

We work with the Office of Budget and Capital Planning to calculate hourly rates that cover our costs. We update them annually to reflect changes in UVic's collective agreements. Those rates are then approved by the Vice-President Finance and Operations (VPFO).

Project Management Services will:

• Assist the customer in defining a scope of work and list of requirements.
• Select and appoint the team of professional consultants—architects and engineers—required for the project.
• Establish and lead a ‘Project Planning Committee,’ as required, to discuss, establish and approve the strategic issues to be addressed by the project.
• Establish and lead the ‘Project Working Committee,’ including the customer, other key UVic stakeholders, and the project consultants, in order to design the project to meet the customer’s needs.
• Prepare detailed project budget estimates for review and approval of the customer and the University administration.
• Arrange for the preparation of graphic presentation materials and proposals for projects that may be required for fundraising and approval purposes.
• Prepare the project schedule and reconcile all scheduling issues that will have an impact on the University community.
• Assure that the project respects UVic guidelines with respect to building standards, the University Campus Plan, and other institutional standards and   requirements.
• Initiate and manage the competitive tendering process to engage contractors to perform the work.
• Manage the permit approval process required by authorities having jurisdiction and negotiate with those authorities on behalf of the University when required.
• Act as UVic’s official representative with respect to contracts between UVic and professional consultants and between UVic and construction contractors.  This role includes, but is not limited to, the enforcement of contract conditions, the authorization of changes to contracts and mandates and the control and approval of all financial transactions.
• Establish and lead regular construction site meetings as required, involving the customer where appropriate, the professional consultants, and the contractor(s), to deal with timely issues affecting the course of the construction work on site.
• Provide on-site logistical co-ordination between the contractor, the customer and all members of the University community who are affected by the activities of the contractor(s).
• Provide internal coordination with other University service units that must interface with the project such as, University Systems, Campus Security, Maintenance and Operations, Legal Services, Insurance and Risk Management, and Financial Services.
• Supervise the preparation of lists of deficiencies in the work, their correction by the contractor, and the approval of the work by the customer and the professional consultants.
• Assure that the end of project documentation is compiled and archived for future reference – final budgets and financial statements, as-built drawings, contract documents, manuals, guarantees, etc.
• Oversee the design, selection, purchase and installation of furniture related to the project as needed.
• Assist the customer in planning and coordinating moving and storage and other setup activities as may be required by the project.