Article: Subcontractor’s Right to Negotiate Subcontract Terms

Subcontractor’s Right to Negotiate Subcontract Terms

By: Thomas R. Olson

Our experience is that standard subcontracts do not fairly allocate rights and obligations.  Rather, the subcontract is one-sided in favor of the general contractor. This article is about why subcontractors have the right to negotiate the subcontract terms, to request that the proposed standard subcontract be re-written to fairly allocate both rights and obligations.