ALEXANDRIA, Va. — According to a survey of American Subcontractors Association (ASA) members, the top three payment issues that subcontractors say have an impact on their business are slow final payment, pay-if-paid clauses, and late progress payments. In order to address these and other payment problems, ASA has designated 2003 as Payment Advocacy Year (PAY).
“During Payment Advocacy Year, subcontractors are looking carefully at the causes of payment problems and developing solutions to address them,” said ASA president Anne Bigane Wilson, CPC, P.E. “Unfortunately, the construction industry is plagued by laws, contracts, and traditional practices that reinforce the untenable position that nonpayment, or late or partial payment, for work properly performed is acceptable.”