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Team and Business Controls

Assign and Monitor a Subcontractor

Give outside crews clear job responsibility while keeping acknowledgement, compliance, commercial, and issue ownership visible.

Usually handled by
Project manager, purchasing lead, or compliance coordinator
Working time
About 15 minutes
Related workspace
View subcontractors features
Start here Open job → Subcontractors; portfolio view: Settings → Subcontractor Management

What good looks like

A job-linked subcontractor assignment with accepted scope, responsible contacts, readiness evidence, dates, and monitored exceptions.

Have these details ready

  • An approved subcontractor/vendor record and contact
  • Defined scope, dates, commercial terms, and job
  • Required insurance, license, tax, safety, and acknowledgement evidence

Run the workflow

  1. Verify company readiness

    Check vendor identity, contacts, insurance, licensing, tax/compliance, performance, and approval before assignment.

  2. Create the job assignment

    In the job Subcontractors tab, add the subcontractor and define scope, dates, status, owner, amount/terms, and coordination notes.

  3. Send and track acknowledgement

    Use supported communication or acknowledgement controls and confirm the responsible outside contact received current job information.

  4. Review readiness

    Resolve missing compliance, schedule, scope, document, and material dependencies before the subcontractor mobilizes.

  5. Monitor work and issues

    Record milestones, communication, documents, incidents, change requests, and open issues on the job rather than in private email only.

  6. Close and review

    Confirm completion, deliverables, final cost, compliance, customer impact, and outstanding issues; update portfolio performance/readiness context.

Check your work

Do not call the workflow complete until these statements are true.

  • Assignment scope, dates, amount, and owner are clear
  • Acknowledgement and compliance are current
  • Open issues are visible in job and management views

If something does not look right

Compliance expires before the work date

Obtain valid renewal evidence or replace/escalate the assignment before dispatch.

The subcontractor requests added scope

Route it through the job change and commercial approval process before authorizing cost.

Keep the workflow moving

Put the process to work

Run the workflow with your own customers, crews, and pricebook.

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