Welcome to The Subcontract Management Institute

Most failures in business are essentially failures in leadership at some level of the organization. Subcontract management, like all disciplines and processes requires strong leadership for successful project execution. Unfortunately subcontract management organizations experience their share of leadership failures. Fortunately, these can be avoided with appropriate leadership development and encouragement.

Published on Jun 1, 2017 Daniel Jacobs and Vic Avetissian, focus on the unique knowledge and skill areas that subcontract professionals must maintain for proficiency, of which pricing is a major component. Organizations recognizing this, take a proactive problem-avoidance approach to greater efficiencies and higher profitability.

Too often prime contractors forget the rule that causes cost. Subcontractors will comply with almost any requirement you place on them, and often that comes at an additional cost. A lack of care in properly tailoring the flow down clauses applied to a subcontractor can make a great deal of

When engaging in a prime contract relationship with the government, the federal common law will control the transaction – with all of its formalities and special rules. Subcontracts, however, are between two commercial entities and the applicable law is most often the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) as implemented in the

Should subcontract management be part of prime contract management, or a stand-alone group under business management? Or perhaps it should report directly to senior management, or perhaps the project officer? Or even the program management office? Too often the subcontracting organization (or purchasing, or sometimes even “supply chain”) is treated