Subcontract procurement: are relationships changing?

Greenwood, D.

Subcontract procurement: are relationships changing? - 2001 - Construction Management and Economics 19(1) January 2001, 5-7(3) .

Recent media coverage seems to suggest that there has been a change in main contractors attitudes to subcontract procurement. This article, however, cautions against this belief arguing that the relationship between most contractors and their subcontractors is based on traditional, cost driven and adversarial lines. Includes references and statistical data.


BUILDING CONTRACTORS
Procurement-old
RELATIONSHIPS
SPECIALIST CONTRACTORS
SUBCONTRACTING
SUBCONTRACTORS