Disputes and delays can be avoided with clear planning and strong communication throughout a project’s lifecycle, writes a ...

Subcontractors are not full-time, regular employees of the business, so it can sometimes be a challenge managing their roles and responsibilities. However, if you are able to effectively manage ...

Subcontractors are crucial for efficient, specialized, and sustainable project completion but introduce significant supply chain risks related to qualifications, safety, and financial health. Almost ...

Paul Debolt, Christopher Griesedieck Jr. Government contractors often "flow down" contract clauses from the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and its supplements to their subcontractors, including ...

Homeowners are increasingly discovering that the check they wrote to a general contractor was only the beginning of the bill. Weeks or months after a project wraps, you may be confronted with a demand ...

To provide contractors, subcontractors, materials' suppliers and vendors a legal method of guaranteeing payment for their services on construction projects, state statutes allow them to file liens ...

It’s alarming how often subcontractor agreements are disregarded by companies that subcontract work to vendors. The biggest exposure tends to be for contractors who subcontract work regularly. However ...

Unless the prime contractor formally defaults the subcontractor, there is no coverage under the policy and no way to collect on a policy claim, say Schrift, AON’s managing director. If you had to ...

The new year brings us some clarification regarding due process and sufficiency of the evidence necessary to support a subcontractor substitution on a California public works project. The case of note ...

For federal government projects, when a payment dispute arises between a contractor and the agency, the contractor typically submits a request for equitable adjustment to the contract price. If the ...

The federal government’s effort in mobilizing more government contractors in recent years to help the nation move forward from the COVID-19 pandemic sets a favorable precedent for the professionals in ...

The mechanism for making sure suppliers and laborers get paid traps homeowners in the middle of disputes.