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Contractor
- someone who contracts to undertake work. Can be an individual, small firm or large
organisation. The term implies the posession of a number of skills and the ability to manage a
project. A domestic sub contractor is employed directly by the main contractor to undertake work
eg plumbing, which he is unable to complete himself. A named sub contractor is one of a number
of firms specified in a bill of quantities as someone the main contractor should
select to employ
from. A nominated sub contractor is one recognised as having particularly relevent and valuable
skills which the main contractor must employ.