Job-site trades
VendoRFP verifies companies in HVAC, electrical work and painting. Those are the scopes you can put out on a job today, and the rest of the job is recorded here rather than sourced here — which is a real limit, so this page says it in its first paragraph instead of at the bottom.
What each scope adds to the insurance
Every company files general liability and workers’ compensation, whatever its trade, and a policy that lapses has 30 days to come back into force. On top of that pair, each trade files the credential its own work turns on — where its own work turns on one.
| Scope | What the trade adds |
|---|---|
| HVAC | EPA 608 certification |
| Electrical | Electrical contractor license |
| Painting | None — no state issues one |
None of this is a favour a company does you at the start of a job. It is the condition of answering your request at all, so the file is complete before you read a price rather than after you have picked one.
Mechanical
Rooftop plant, split systems, the make-up air on a restaurant fit-out: whoever handles refrigerant on your job is doing it under a federal certification, and the reason it behaves differently from everything else in this file is that it carries no expiration date at all. It is earned once. What does expire is the insurance behind it, and that is the pair a mechanical company renews every year like everybody else.
Before it can price your scope
Electrical
A state contractor licence is the one document on this page that gets no renewal window whatsoever. An insurance policy that lapses gets a renewal window, on the reasoning that a renewal already in the post is still a renewal. A licence that has expired is a company that is not licensed today, and the rulebook treats the two differently on purpose.
Before it can price your scope
Paint
Every other trade on this page adds a licence or a certification to the insurance pair. Painting adds nothing, because no state issues a painting licence for an insurance article to demand. What that leaves is not a lighter check — it is the same insurance floor you set for the mechanical sub, applied to a company whose crew is on your scaffolding, and it is worth saying out loud rather than leaving a reader to wonder what the third row was meant to be.
Before it can price your scope
All three also file a W-9. It says nothing about whether a crew is safe on your site, so it sits with the paperwork about money rather than in any of the lists above.
The rest of the job
A job is far more than three scopes. The steel, the slab, the roof, the plumbing risers and the drywall are all bought somewhere, usually from companies you have worked with for years and have no intention of putting out to anybody. That work is recorded here, documented here and paid for here, under the address it belongs to, in the same file as the scopes you did put out. What it is not is sourced here, and this page will not pretend otherwise.
The other five trades VendoRFP verifies — pool cleaning, landscaping, day porter and cleaning, gate and lobby attendants and pest control — are work bought at a building somebody has already handed over. They are on the platform, and a builder who also holds finished assets will find them useful; they are not what a superintendent calls for at framing.
Putting one out
A request names one of the three scopes above, the site it is on, what the work is in your own words, and the day you want answers by. It goes to companies verified in that trade with your insurance floor printed inside it, so a company reads what it has to clear before it decides whether to price the work at all.
Printed on the face of every request
Issued through VendoRFP. Vendors send their proposals back on this site. No phone number or email address is published with this RFP.
What comes back is a priced answer per line you asked for, from a company whose file was already complete. You read them beside each other and award one.
Three scopes on a job can be put out here today, each answered by companies whose insurance and trade credential were read before the price was written. Everything else on the site keeps its file under the same address.
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