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contractors
9 notes on contractors. All notes.
Getting paid on time, from the contractor's side
A correct bill can still sit unpaid for weeks. There are only four places it stops, and knowing which one you are in changes what you should ask.
The challan that protects the supplier
A delivery challan is usually described from the receiving side. Written from the supplier's side it is evidence, and six months later it settles the argument.
What a work order should say
Read it before you sign it. The clauses that decide whether a job is profitable are rarely the ones anyone reads, and three lines are usually missing.
Signing a document from a phone
Three different things are called a signature on a phone, and they prove very different amounts. What to check before your thumb touches the screen.
Keep your own copy
At final account the argument is settled by whoever can produce a dated document the other side cannot contradict. Usually that is the larger party.
What a site engineer should record, and what they should not
The site engineer witnesses most of what happens on a project. Here is what of that must survive in writing, and what should never enter the record.
Quoting a rate you can live with
What actually sits inside a construction rate, the two costs contractors forget, and the conditions that decide whether a quoted rate survives the job.
When your ledger and theirs disagree
Balance confirmations never agree the first time. Reconcile events rather than totals, classify every difference by cause, and the argument becomes arithmetic.
Paying a labour contractor
Attendance, measured work, advances and recoveries. How labour contract payments actually run on an Indian site, and where both sides end up cheated.