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Here’s the logic: when expanding into new areas amid high demand, labor is the principal concern for general contractors. The labor bottleneck, in turn, is a function of subcontractor availability, quality, and volume. The ways in which general contractors source & vet subcontractors at scale are manual in their application, and limited at best and damaging at worst in the data they pull from.
Consider an estimator, PM, or other individual managing a project in a new area. His or her workflow may involve searching for, say, “electricians” on Google Maps or Procore, searching through the reviews, projects, etc. on the website of top results, calling a gatekeeper, booking a follow-on call with an estimator or owner, meeting them in person, sending a bid invite package to their email, and repeating this process enough times to ensure that a lower bound of bids are actually received based off the volume of bid invites sent. You can surely see the concerns here—the application of the process is based largely on the manual effort of a high-value employee, the data they pull from is incomplete and variable (for example, picking some top results on Google Maps to research and contact), and the ultimate quality of the subcontractor is more often than not determined by their ultimate performance on the project, with the (accurate) logic being that once you’re burned once, you won’t work with a given sub again.
That whole process is why we built subcontractlists.com: a free provider of subcontractor information so that general contractors can immediately find and rank all subs that meet their quality specifications and easily contact them to confirm availability or interest in upcoming projects