Payment review
Pay-if-paid / pay-when-paid ask language for the GC.
Some payment clauses sound like timing language. The dangerous ones can make the owner's nonpayment your problem.
Pay-if-paid / pay-when-paid
Can we revise the payment clause so approved work is paid within a fixed window and owner nonpayment that is unrelated to our scope does not become our shop's credit risk?
Payment by Owner to Contractor is an absolute condition precedent to Contractor's obligation to pay Subcontractor.
Contractor will pay Subcontractor within a fixed period after approval of Subcontractor's payment application, except for amounts directly disputed because of Subcontractor's own defective work.
Bring counsel in if the GC will not remove condition-precedent wording, if the project has large material deposits, or if payment depends on final owner closeout.
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MillworkShield can tailor this ask to the actual contract wording.
Upload the subcontract, mark this issue Fight, and copy the GC-ready response.