I am wanting to hear about what everyone is doing if you utilize PVA's for subcontracts or CNA's for PO's. Or do you use some other sort of blanket mechanism?
PVA:
Do you negotiate the master subcontract once (boilerplate) and then issue lightweight scope/dollar information at the job level which essentially works as a subcontract for that job?
CNA:
I am thinking that this would work as follows - we issue a CNA one time (negotiated) up to a certain dollar amount like $25K on every single job. But the issue I am running into is how do we hold them to certain specs on the supplies they are providing to us? At the CNA level, we don't know what they are going to provide across many jobs, as it could be a bunch of things.
Also for insurance on this, I am thinking we would collect a blanket COI with our minimums at vendor setup and hold that in place for the CNA's so we are not constantly chasing COI's for essentially PO's. Would that cover us or would we need to always incorporate the owner specific insurance requirements?
The owner of our construction company requires insurance on file for every single vendor who sets foot on site, and it is a non-negotiable.
Just wondering if someone has some other process around blanket PO's or recurring subcontractors where we aren't having the PM's or the vendors filling out the same paperwork over and over.
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Daccota Lenny
Controller
Tarlton Corporation
St. Louis, MO
314-584-9092
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