@Wayne Brooks I stand corrected. Where I am, we are regulated much more stringently and we cannot be the license holder for another contractor, so to me that just sounds strange but you're there so you're information is clearly more accurate than mine, but it does bring up some questions that @Erin Bryant may want to know from a liability standpoint. Where I am the contracting company holds a license and needs to have a licensed individual (a Responsible Managing Employee or RME) who oversees that work is carried out following the letter of the law with regard to construction,which sounds similar to what you are saying but being that license holder for multiple companies is rarely granted by our contractor board, which sounds different where you are. I have little experience with this scenario. What does qualifying another contractor mean? Does the sponsored contractor company (in this case the one @Erin Bryant is looking to write contract with) carry a license or is somehow regulated by the state? Does that sponsored contractor carry his own full set of insurance (liability, auto, workers compensation)? Would he be responsible for a Builders Risk type policy? Is he legally held responsible to conform to the Uniform Building Code (UBC2006, UBC2012 or whatever is required in FL)?
In my experience construction contracts do several things in summary: list the players (client, contractor, design professional), outline the scope of the work and the costs (whether they be fixed or variable), how the project will be carried out, and what to do if things go wrong. @Manolo D. If the scenario that @Wayne Brooks talks about is correct, then I would agree that someone other than the license holder could sign the contract, but in my experience the more folks that are signed on and responsible on the other side of the contract the more likely that things go as planned or when they do go wrong, there are more people I can directly go after.
I am curious to learn more, please keep this conversation going...
