SUBCONTRACT AGREEMENT, READY TO EDIT.
A full subcontract agreement for hiring a subcontractor under you: the parties, the upstream contract it flows from, the engineer, the scope and the terms.
Most specialty contractors hiring their own subs do it on a purchase order or an email, which means the terms flowing down from the contract above them don't flow down at all. When the job goes wrong, the obligations you owe upstream have no matching obligation from the party who caused it. It's emailed as an attachment, and everything you need to change is highlighted. This one goes DOWN: to a subcontractor or supplier working under you.
Talk to your own attorney before you send this. Not a lawyer in general, a construction attorney licensed in your state, because notice windows, filing deadlines and the enforceability of several standard clauses all change at the state line. Your own contracts will also hold terms this document knows nothing about. It's a real legal document and a starting point, which means the wording that protects you is the one somebody has read against your contracts and your state. SPM isn't a law firm and nothing here is legal advice.
3 THINGS, IN ORDER.
Flow your upstream terms down. The reason this document exists is so what you owe the general contractor is what your sub owes you.
Fill every highlighted field. Job number, subcontract number, all three parties from their certificates of insurance, and the project from the contract above.
Have your attorney review it before the first one goes out. It's a contract, the enforceability of several standard clauses varies by state, and this is a starting point rather than a finished agreement.
THIS ONE CAME DOWN ON PURPOSE.
A full subcontract agreement is the one document on this site somebody is most likely to sign without an attorney reading it first, and the enforceability of several of its clauses changes at the state line. So the file is gone and the page stays, because what belongs in a subcontract is worth reading even when the template is somebody else's to write.
If you're about to hire a sub under you, the terms you owe upstream are the terms to flow down. Take that list to a construction attorney in your state and have them build you one. It is the cheapest legal work you will ever buy, and you buy it once.
EVERY CONTROL TEMPLATE, ONE QR CODE.
Collecting these one email at a time works. A QR code printed in the book, with a password behind it, opening every CONTROL template as a download at runoncfos.com/cfos-toolkit. The paperback is $24.99 on Amazon.
BEFORE YOU USE IT.
