subcontract definition

subcontract

Agreement, purchase order, or any such legal instrument issued under a prime contract (by the prime contractor to a third party—the subcontractor), calling for the performance of a defined piece of work or production and/or delivery of specified goods or services. Subcontracts contain special terms and conditions that are unique to the prime contract, and flow-down provisions that proceed from it.

subcontract is in the Agreements & Contracts and Purchasing & Procurement subjects.

subcontract appears in the definition of the following term: scope of work

subcontract appears in the other terms: subcontractor bond, subcontractor

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