Subcontractor management for projects in Project Operations Lite Deployment scenarios
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | 
Jan 31, 2022 |
Business value
This feature provides better visibility and control over all aspects of work on a project.
Feature details
Subcontracting or outsourcing project work to vendors and managing the vendor resource assignments and delivery of work is essential in any project-based organization. In this release wave, Project Operations will prioritize comprehensive experiences for managing subcontractors for project-based work. Key capabilities include:
- Billing agreements with vendors using time and material and fixed-bid models.
- Pricing for subcontractor resources.
- Staffing subcontractor resources and insights into resource choices between full-time versus subcontractors.
- Experiences for onboarding subcontracted resources and the ability for subcontractors to select the subcontract when recording time.
- Estimate for materials and expenses using components directly procured on a subcontract.
- Ability to record time, expense, and material actuals on projects costed using the prices negotiated with the vendor on a subcontract.