supply chain management

In the course of business, many companies sub-contract some or all of their obligations to third parties. This is usually known as sub-contracting.

Before deciding whether to sub-contract to a particular sub-contractor, a company must undertake a certain amount of due diligence to see whether the sub-contractor can provide the services being asked of it. It is important that these talks take place in a confidential manner, which will require the parties to enter into a non-disclosure agreement.

In order to effectively sub-contract services, a company needs to ensure that any obligations placed on it within the contract are tracked through to the agreement which it has with its sub-contractor.

White & Black has significant experience in drafting master service agreements for each different level in the supply chain and advises clients on risk and liability issues in such agreements where sub-contracting is anticipated.