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 ...

Recently, clients have asked if they or a vendor or supplier are a “subcontractor” under a federal government contract. Sometimes the answer is easy—e.g., you are a subcontractor when a prime ...

Q: Our agency has several government contractor clients with lots of employees who travel abroad to carry out their work. The Department of Government Efficiency seems to be ordering the cancellation ...

Many contractors employ pay-if-paid provisions in their subcontracts, which may present difficulties for subcontractors seeking to be paid in a timely fashion. A pay-if-paid provision generally ...

Homeowners are increasingly discovering that the check they wrote to a general contractor was only the beginning of the bill.

One critical misconception is that a subcontractor’s bankruptcy means that it is going out of business. A bankruptcy by a subcontractor may actually be the method by which the subcontractor continues ...

Unless a contract specifically provides otherwise, an owner is not a third-party beneficiary of a standard contract between a general contractor and a subcontractor. This principle is illustrated in ...