Prime contractors ‘simply middlemen’, says academic
3 April 2012
Prime contractors are becoming superfluous to the contracting process, according to an industry expert.
They were simply middlemen, creating an unnecessary barrier between the client and the specialist contractor, said Roy Morledge, director of graduate studies at the faculty of construction and the environment at Nottingham Trent University.
Specialist contractors, which account for almost 80 per cent of all contractors, own the skills base, while prime...