ABSTRACT
Subcontracting is an essential part of the way all contractors operate. None has the f facilities or money to lay in stocks of the numerous everyday commodities it has to use in its routine jobs; these it gets as it requires them by subcontracting. At the other end of the system there are companies which are recognized by their employers as being nothing more than entrepreneurs rarely make anything themselves, but acting as coordinators’ between their many subcontractors. They mostly erect plants having a family resemblance to one another, and by using the same subcontractors for similar parts of them, they can offer their clients a much quicker project turn-round. This is, perhaps, an illogical extension here, but they have converted a process of subcontracting, into one of subletting the whole project works, with themselves still acting as the main contractors and taking full responsibility for the works.
