Subcontractor scope checklist

Checklist

What each sub’s package includes, item by item — and where every one of them has got to.

The line nobody wrote down

Almost every scope argument on a job is about something that was understood and never written: who moves the dumpster, who patches behind the electrician, whether the fasteners were included. This is the list that makes that a five-minute conversation instead of a change order nobody agrees with.

It is not the subcontract

Nothing here interprets an agreement or decides whose scope an item is in. It records what you understand the package to include and where each item has got to, with the specification section beside it if you keep one. When the answer really is contested, the contract documents settle it — this is the dated list you compare them against.

On the same job

Work that is done but not right belongs on the punch list, which has its own lifecycle and its own sign-off. Questions go to the RFI register, and the sub’s certificate of insurance lives in the COI tracker where its expiry can be seen.

A checklist of what you understand a package to include and where each item stands. It is not the subcontract, it does not interpret one, and nothing here decides whether an item is within somebody's scope — the contract documents say that. Everything runs on your device.

Questions people ask

What is this actually for?
Writing down what a subcontractor's package includes before the argument. Most scope disputes are about a line nobody wrote down: who moves the dumpster, who patches after the electrician, who supplies the fasteners. A list per package, checked off as work lands, is the cheapest insurance on a job.
Does it decide what is in scope?
No. Nothing here interprets a subcontract or decides whether an item belongs to somebody. It records what YOU understand the package to include, in your own words, so there is a dated list to compare against the contract documents when it matters.
Why is a scope item not treated as equipment?
Because it is not. This product keeps an equipment registry for things with a service history — a boiler, a generator, a vehicle — and forcing a scope line into it would give every contractor a second inventory full of nothing. Scope items are register rows attached to a job by its stable id.
Can I track more than one subcontractor on a job?
Yes. Each row names the subcontractor it belongs to, so one job can carry the painting package, the drywall package and the electrical package on the same list, filtered by whichever you are looking at.