For Proposal - how much would you call "third party supplier?"

[amdesign]

I'm working on a large proposal for a client, a portion of which says,

If a portion of your proposal is to be furnished by another supplier, such third party arrangements must be specifically identified in your proposal. CLIENT will consider your company to be the sole point of contact for any and all charges and payments as well as the responsible party for resolution of all issues pertaining to performance of your company’s products or services. CLIENT reserves the right to refuse a third party supplier.

1. Do you use third party suppliers?

1. Are all arrangements coordinated through your company as a sole point of contact?
2. Does the third party supplier invoice separately or does your organization directly provide all invoices for products and services?

How much your WordPress development would you consider Third-Party to what you do? WordPress itself? Premium themes? Premium plugins? Plugins? Themes? None of it?

Curious as to how much you would include in your response to this portion. I don't white label any of what I do, so they're aware that their project would use WP and plugins, so I'm not afraid to fully disclose that. What do you think?

[andrea_r]

They want to know if you're using any subcontractors.

[MikeCloutier]

It's not unusual for customers to want to know who you are subbing out work to. I wouldn't worry about things that you purchase off the shelf, but if you intend to engage someone to do work for you on this project, you should disclose the relationship.

You should also try to make a deal with your sub that they get paid when you get paid, unless you are willing and able to absorb the cost.

You should also try to set up a payment schedule from your client to allow for interim payments as you achieve milestones to secure yourself and your subcontractor and any payments you make for off the shelf purchases.

You should be the sole point of contact. But it becomes tricky when you are in the middle.

Ultimately, though, the clause in the contract is pretty standard.

[Ryan]

You should also try to make a deal with your sub that they get paid when you get paid, unless you are willing and able to absorb the cost.

I'd have thought that was obvious, but it seems many people don't think of that until they have a grumpy sub-contractor wondering what the heck is going on.


<rant>I've been burned on this by a few different people lately. I do the work for them, send them the bill and the response is "Sorry. We haven't been paid yet". How them being paid is any way related to when I get paid is beyond me.</rant>

[andrea_r]

That's what a float is for.