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Subcontracting Opportunities and Outsourcing The Work
Remodeling Homes - Home/Office Building Maintenance & Repairs - Lawn Care Service Work - Landscape Installs
How To Make Money in Subcontracting
www.nilssonbooks.com (http://www.nilssonbooks.com)
Subcontracting and Outsourcing the work of building remodeling and repairs, roofing, siding, paving, construction, interior and exterior building maintenance, mowing, lawn, grounds maintenance, irrigation installations and service, hydroseeding, snow plowing, snow and ice control, sidewalk snow blowing, shoveling, and snow hauling and removal and many, many other work and work categories and trades, skills is typical when the prime contractor or General Contractor who has and owns the rights to do the work under the contract doesn't have the equipment, expertise or employees, or materials inventory or the money/or credit lines to invest in a project all by hinmself, to do all of the entire project. This in turn creates income opportunities for others who can take on part of the work and help get it done. In other words, jobs are created, employing others (ourtsiders) is possible because the general contractor can't do all the work himself using his own employees and equipment and also may lack the skills or experience in particular areas of a contract, thus looks to outsource that part of the job.
Subcontracting opportunities arise because ...
Often times subcontracting income opportunities arise as result of another contractor or person having received a large contract award project with a large scope of work agenda to fulfill, where the person or contractor getting the award can only provide part of it or simply is not equipped to handle a large project. He or she may not have enough employee labor, materials or equipment to handle the project they have been awarded. This doesn't mean that the contractor (who was awarded and owns the rights to a contract award) can't take on the job. It may simply mean that he'll need help in doing the work and outsourcing or subcontracting is sometimes the answer.
Subcontracting offers opportunities for all contractors who do some or part of the entire project and who may also specialize in that part where they have both the knowledge and equipment necessary to complete the work. Picture the construction of housing for example. Many different trades and work specialties are needed to complete a project. Construction site work, bull dozing, earth moving, grading and land/seeding/grass/drainage, road preparation, framing houses, paving, plumbing, electrical, woodwork, home electrical appliance installation/carpentry, roofing, siding, windows, masons, heating, air conditioning ... and a wide variety of expertise and equipment is needed to complete most projects. In other words, the typical small business company or person usually isn't in a position to do all of the work and must look to others to help complete a project ... the others who help complete these projects are commonly referred to as subcontractors.
Some prime or general lawn & landscape contractors in the landscape business for example are known to subcontract all of their mowing operations so that they can focus on other work within a property specification such as landscape renovation, tree care, lawn chemical programs and applications, irrigation, hardscaping, specialized pruning and trimming trees and shrubs. In the green industry, Many projects such as very large office parks, colleges and universities, park & recreation departments, military installations are so big that one contractor is sometimes unable to supply the large number of employees, equipment fleet of mowers, ztr, tractors, not to mention tackling the requirements of spring and fall cleanups that need leaf vacuum suction on a large scale to handle the volume.
In addition to working for a general contractor ... Or "prime contractor" who is usually an independent businessman contractor ... many other oppotunities are also available by working as a subcontractor for institutions such as colleges and unversities, entire public and private school systems, hospitals, military veterans homes and hospitals, medical campuses, convalescent homes, adult assisted living facilities, towns and municipalities, park and recreation departments, cemeteries, military installation bases, airports, hotels, national parks and historic properties, office parks, shopping malls, and real estate management firms who may be engaged in doing all their own work in-house yet still arrange for others to work ... so they "outsource" and hire people to handle certain parts of their own work normally done with in-house employees. These sources of subcontracting should not be overlooked when seeking to subcontract since many of these projects can be very large.
Nilsson Associates www.nilssonbooks.com (http://www.nilssonbooks.com) has a book available about Opportunities in Subcontracting and how to get started making money in the subcontracting business. It contains step by step instructions on subcontracting , and the contract outlines and forms needed to present work offers, job proposals to General Contractors and others who award the jobs.
Subcontracting the Work
written by Phil Nilsson
available at www.nilssonbooks.com (http://www.nilssonbooks.com)
Toll Free 866-280-2252
Contents:
How to profit from subcontracting
Pros and Cons of partnering jobs
All about "owning the work"
Ways to limit your risks
Performance guarantees
How to make money on others
Subcontracting forms & agreements
Legal requirements - Who's liable for what?
Insurance concerns - The Subs Coverage
How To protect your valuable customer contacts
How To qualify your subs reputation/work history
Covenants not to compete forms and instructions
What will a Subcontractor charge you for a job? ... or what should you charge as a subcontractor ? How long will a job take, and what can you expect to pay a subcontractor for the work? Nilsson's Labor Time Data Handbook can answer the question by giving you a close estimate of job time in hours. You can use the hours given in the Labor Time Data Handbook to calculate the approximate cost of your job that a subcontractor is likely to charge, and you can also use those totals to suggest a price of the job to your sub. You'll know within reason how long the job will take, and have a good idea as to what amount you should be paying to have the work done based on job time averages.
How to estimate costs and prices for subcontracting landscape industry work can be found in the Labor Time Data Handbook available at www.nilssonbooks.com (http://www.nilssonbooks.com)
Other
resources
Sales Boosters (http://nilssonbooks.com/sales_booster_package.htm)
Job Estimating Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
Labor Time Data Handbook (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#)
New Business Startup Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/just_getting_started.htm)
Complete Operations Management System (http://nilssonbooks.com/coms_package.htm)
About Nilsson Associates
Business consultant, speaker, nationally recognized best selling author, Phil Nilsson's articles are published in Lawn & Landscape, PRO Magazine, The Arborist and Landscaper Publications. Nilsson's books are endorsed by national trade organizations and are in use by thousands of landscapers, parks, municipalities, universities and property managers. Nilsson owned and operated a successful Landscape Design-Build-Maintain firm for 15 years. Nilsson Associates are Consultants to the membership of the Professional Lawn Care Association of America.
When it comes to pricing and Job Estimating Strategies and Methods (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm) for lawn and landscape jobs nobody has more lawn & landscape business jobs pricing information than Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants. Nilsson's Job Price Guides Books are from surveys conducted throughout the United States and covers lawn care bids, job bidding & estimating methods and trends for tree care, irrigation installation & service, pavement sweeping & maintenance, snow plowing operations, landscaping and hardscaping job bids for both commercial & residential customers.
Nilsson's Price Guidelines are also useful for real estate management companies, parks & recreation departments, municipalities, college and university campus grounds maintenance supervisors and grounds management cost estimators and budget departments. The Price Guides give an approximation of what their grounds care maintenance and landscape improvement jobs, grounds expansion and development costs are likely to be. The price guides are also useful if you are not aware of lowballer pricing levels or have no experience dealing with lowball contractors.
Nilsson Associates Pricing Your Services Book (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#Pricing Your Services) is a good companion reference to the Job Pricing Guides as is the Job Estimating Bidding System that Nilsson offers for lawn and landscape business estimating methods & bids for grounds services, landscaping pricing estimates, estimating & bids the price seasonal work, year around commercial estimating contracts, campus grounds, price per square foot, best grounds maintenance & landscaping job to bid & pricing, price of lawn care, lawn mowing price, aeration pricing, lawns, commercial landscape job bid estimates.
Nilsson's books cover most all outdoor maintenance estimating & pricing, mulching prices, pricing chemicals, weeding & aerating pricing, fertilizer prices, prices for organic fertilizer, pricing weeds in beds, pricing pruning & trimming trees & shrubs, pricing commercial & residential snow plowing, hardscape pricing, pricing hydroseeding, irrigation service estimates for commercial & residential, pricing seeding lawns, pricing lawn sod, prices for slit seeding lawns, pricing edging lawn beds, spring cleanup prices, pricing fall cleanups, hourly price of pressure washing walks & patios, pricing trees, stump grinding prices, price for gutter cleaning, lawn dethatching price, price for shoveling snow, pricing salting, price for sanding.
Copyright 2008 by Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants, All Rights Reserved
http://nilssonbooks.com/_borders/Phil-Nilsson-Picture.jpg
Phil Nilsson
Nilsson Associates
Green Industry Consultants
374 Hart Street
Southington, CT 06489
Toll Free 866-280-2252
www.nilssonbooks.com (http://www.nilssonbooks.com)
email nilsson.assoc@snet.net
Nilsson's Job Estimating System (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm) has everything you need to evaluate job site specifications & work required, figure costs, how to price ~ lawns, grounds maintenance, landscape installs. You'll get step - by - step instructions, bid proposal outlines & customer contracts, labor hours job times. You'll get job price guides to compare your prices with the going rates, overhead costs, materials, profit ratios. You'll set realistic prices, and job labor hours goals based on field tested, proven, time studied labor hours for every job you bid. You'll know how to evaluate every job for total work hours required, the price to charge for the job, the profit you'll make, best crew size, job costs. You'll also get add-on service check lists to help you maximize sales by upselling customers on additional property improvements.
Special Book Discounts (http://nilssonbooks.com/discounts_and_deals.htm)
FREE JOB PRICING GUIDELINES (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
http://hispaniclawnforum.com/banners/jobestpakbanpn.gif (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
http://hispaniclawnforum.com/banners/itvbanner1.gif (http://nilssonbooks.com/video_tapes.htm)
http://hispaniclawnforum.com/banners/coms_banner_d.gif (http://nilssonbooks.com/coms_package.htm)
Remodeling Homes - Home/Office Building Maintenance & Repairs - Lawn Care Service Work - Landscape Installs
How To Make Money in Subcontracting
www.nilssonbooks.com (http://www.nilssonbooks.com)
Subcontracting and Outsourcing the work of building remodeling and repairs, roofing, siding, paving, construction, interior and exterior building maintenance, mowing, lawn, grounds maintenance, irrigation installations and service, hydroseeding, snow plowing, snow and ice control, sidewalk snow blowing, shoveling, and snow hauling and removal and many, many other work and work categories and trades, skills is typical when the prime contractor or General Contractor who has and owns the rights to do the work under the contract doesn't have the equipment, expertise or employees, or materials inventory or the money/or credit lines to invest in a project all by hinmself, to do all of the entire project. This in turn creates income opportunities for others who can take on part of the work and help get it done. In other words, jobs are created, employing others (ourtsiders) is possible because the general contractor can't do all the work himself using his own employees and equipment and also may lack the skills or experience in particular areas of a contract, thus looks to outsource that part of the job.
Subcontracting opportunities arise because ...
Often times subcontracting income opportunities arise as result of another contractor or person having received a large contract award project with a large scope of work agenda to fulfill, where the person or contractor getting the award can only provide part of it or simply is not equipped to handle a large project. He or she may not have enough employee labor, materials or equipment to handle the project they have been awarded. This doesn't mean that the contractor (who was awarded and owns the rights to a contract award) can't take on the job. It may simply mean that he'll need help in doing the work and outsourcing or subcontracting is sometimes the answer.
Subcontracting offers opportunities for all contractors who do some or part of the entire project and who may also specialize in that part where they have both the knowledge and equipment necessary to complete the work. Picture the construction of housing for example. Many different trades and work specialties are needed to complete a project. Construction site work, bull dozing, earth moving, grading and land/seeding/grass/drainage, road preparation, framing houses, paving, plumbing, electrical, woodwork, home electrical appliance installation/carpentry, roofing, siding, windows, masons, heating, air conditioning ... and a wide variety of expertise and equipment is needed to complete most projects. In other words, the typical small business company or person usually isn't in a position to do all of the work and must look to others to help complete a project ... the others who help complete these projects are commonly referred to as subcontractors.
Some prime or general lawn & landscape contractors in the landscape business for example are known to subcontract all of their mowing operations so that they can focus on other work within a property specification such as landscape renovation, tree care, lawn chemical programs and applications, irrigation, hardscaping, specialized pruning and trimming trees and shrubs. In the green industry, Many projects such as very large office parks, colleges and universities, park & recreation departments, military installations are so big that one contractor is sometimes unable to supply the large number of employees, equipment fleet of mowers, ztr, tractors, not to mention tackling the requirements of spring and fall cleanups that need leaf vacuum suction on a large scale to handle the volume.
In addition to working for a general contractor ... Or "prime contractor" who is usually an independent businessman contractor ... many other oppotunities are also available by working as a subcontractor for institutions such as colleges and unversities, entire public and private school systems, hospitals, military veterans homes and hospitals, medical campuses, convalescent homes, adult assisted living facilities, towns and municipalities, park and recreation departments, cemeteries, military installation bases, airports, hotels, national parks and historic properties, office parks, shopping malls, and real estate management firms who may be engaged in doing all their own work in-house yet still arrange for others to work ... so they "outsource" and hire people to handle certain parts of their own work normally done with in-house employees. These sources of subcontracting should not be overlooked when seeking to subcontract since many of these projects can be very large.
Nilsson Associates www.nilssonbooks.com (http://www.nilssonbooks.com) has a book available about Opportunities in Subcontracting and how to get started making money in the subcontracting business. It contains step by step instructions on subcontracting , and the contract outlines and forms needed to present work offers, job proposals to General Contractors and others who award the jobs.
Subcontracting the Work
written by Phil Nilsson
available at www.nilssonbooks.com (http://www.nilssonbooks.com)
Toll Free 866-280-2252
Contents:
How to profit from subcontracting
Pros and Cons of partnering jobs
All about "owning the work"
Ways to limit your risks
Performance guarantees
How to make money on others
Subcontracting forms & agreements
Legal requirements - Who's liable for what?
Insurance concerns - The Subs Coverage
How To protect your valuable customer contacts
How To qualify your subs reputation/work history
Covenants not to compete forms and instructions
What will a Subcontractor charge you for a job? ... or what should you charge as a subcontractor ? How long will a job take, and what can you expect to pay a subcontractor for the work? Nilsson's Labor Time Data Handbook can answer the question by giving you a close estimate of job time in hours. You can use the hours given in the Labor Time Data Handbook to calculate the approximate cost of your job that a subcontractor is likely to charge, and you can also use those totals to suggest a price of the job to your sub. You'll know within reason how long the job will take, and have a good idea as to what amount you should be paying to have the work done based on job time averages.
How to estimate costs and prices for subcontracting landscape industry work can be found in the Labor Time Data Handbook available at www.nilssonbooks.com (http://www.nilssonbooks.com)
Other
resources
Sales Boosters (http://nilssonbooks.com/sales_booster_package.htm)
Job Estimating Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
Labor Time Data Handbook (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#)
New Business Startup Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/just_getting_started.htm)
Complete Operations Management System (http://nilssonbooks.com/coms_package.htm)
About Nilsson Associates
Business consultant, speaker, nationally recognized best selling author, Phil Nilsson's articles are published in Lawn & Landscape, PRO Magazine, The Arborist and Landscaper Publications. Nilsson's books are endorsed by national trade organizations and are in use by thousands of landscapers, parks, municipalities, universities and property managers. Nilsson owned and operated a successful Landscape Design-Build-Maintain firm for 15 years. Nilsson Associates are Consultants to the membership of the Professional Lawn Care Association of America.
When it comes to pricing and Job Estimating Strategies and Methods (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm) for lawn and landscape jobs nobody has more lawn & landscape business jobs pricing information than Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants. Nilsson's Job Price Guides Books are from surveys conducted throughout the United States and covers lawn care bids, job bidding & estimating methods and trends for tree care, irrigation installation & service, pavement sweeping & maintenance, snow plowing operations, landscaping and hardscaping job bids for both commercial & residential customers.
Nilsson's Price Guidelines are also useful for real estate management companies, parks & recreation departments, municipalities, college and university campus grounds maintenance supervisors and grounds management cost estimators and budget departments. The Price Guides give an approximation of what their grounds care maintenance and landscape improvement jobs, grounds expansion and development costs are likely to be. The price guides are also useful if you are not aware of lowballer pricing levels or have no experience dealing with lowball contractors.
Nilsson Associates Pricing Your Services Book (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#Pricing Your Services) is a good companion reference to the Job Pricing Guides as is the Job Estimating Bidding System that Nilsson offers for lawn and landscape business estimating methods & bids for grounds services, landscaping pricing estimates, estimating & bids the price seasonal work, year around commercial estimating contracts, campus grounds, price per square foot, best grounds maintenance & landscaping job to bid & pricing, price of lawn care, lawn mowing price, aeration pricing, lawns, commercial landscape job bid estimates.
Nilsson's books cover most all outdoor maintenance estimating & pricing, mulching prices, pricing chemicals, weeding & aerating pricing, fertilizer prices, prices for organic fertilizer, pricing weeds in beds, pricing pruning & trimming trees & shrubs, pricing commercial & residential snow plowing, hardscape pricing, pricing hydroseeding, irrigation service estimates for commercial & residential, pricing seeding lawns, pricing lawn sod, prices for slit seeding lawns, pricing edging lawn beds, spring cleanup prices, pricing fall cleanups, hourly price of pressure washing walks & patios, pricing trees, stump grinding prices, price for gutter cleaning, lawn dethatching price, price for shoveling snow, pricing salting, price for sanding.
Copyright 2008 by Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants, All Rights Reserved
http://nilssonbooks.com/_borders/Phil-Nilsson-Picture.jpg
Phil Nilsson
Nilsson Associates
Green Industry Consultants
374 Hart Street
Southington, CT 06489
Toll Free 866-280-2252
www.nilssonbooks.com (http://www.nilssonbooks.com)
email nilsson.assoc@snet.net
Nilsson's Job Estimating System (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm) has everything you need to evaluate job site specifications & work required, figure costs, how to price ~ lawns, grounds maintenance, landscape installs. You'll get step - by - step instructions, bid proposal outlines & customer contracts, labor hours job times. You'll get job price guides to compare your prices with the going rates, overhead costs, materials, profit ratios. You'll set realistic prices, and job labor hours goals based on field tested, proven, time studied labor hours for every job you bid. You'll know how to evaluate every job for total work hours required, the price to charge for the job, the profit you'll make, best crew size, job costs. You'll also get add-on service check lists to help you maximize sales by upselling customers on additional property improvements.
Special Book Discounts (http://nilssonbooks.com/discounts_and_deals.htm)
FREE JOB PRICING GUIDELINES (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
http://hispaniclawnforum.com/banners/jobestpakbanpn.gif (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
http://hispaniclawnforum.com/banners/itvbanner1.gif (http://nilssonbooks.com/video_tapes.htm)
http://hispaniclawnforum.com/banners/coms_banner_d.gif (http://nilssonbooks.com/coms_package.htm)