The subcontract ledger is a job on its own

Each subcontract account is simple; thirty of them, on different cycles, with different terms, are a workload - applications to assess, notices to serve in windows, contra-charges to evidence, retentions to track, final accounts to close. Handled by whoever has a spare hour, the ledger develops exactly the faults that cost money: a notice missed here, a contra asserted without records there, retention nobody releases and nobody chases.

Administered as one discipline, the ledger goes quiet: one owner, one calendar of every account's dates, assessments done to a standard, notices as routine, each account closed while its facts are fresh. That is the service - unglamorous by design, and priced against the alternative, which is the one missed notice that costs more than a year of administration.