Massachusetts Out of State Contractor

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We (a California contractor) are currently performing electrical retrofit work for a national commercial/retail customer of ours in Massachusetts. We have filed and posted all the appropriate bonding and out of state registration paper work and plan to hire a local licensed electrical shop to perform the work. We have submitted for permit and the permit has been approved, but the Massachusetts permit office is requesting that we as the "builder" be licensed, even though we are subbing the entire job out to a local shop with the appropriate licenses.

Has anybody else run into this in Massachusetts? Seems like we, our customer, and the sub should all be covered due to the out of state registration and bonding that we put in place.

Regardless we are working towards getting out Massachusetts license, it is just taking too long. The customer "needs" their work done.

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rzahner said:
We (a California contractor) are currently performing electrical retrofit work for a national commercial/retail customer of ours in Massachusetts. We have filed and posted all the appropriate bonding and out of state registration paper work and plan to hire a local licensed electrical shop to perform the work. We have submitted for permit and the permit has been approved, but the Massachusetts permit office is requesting that we as the "builder" be licensed, even though we are subbing the entire job out to a local shop with the appropriate licenses.
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A request is just that, a request.

I am curious what kind of license they want you to get. A GC license?
 
Could it be as the Prime you are responsible for all of your subs, insurance etc. if they default?
 
I've seen this in other jurisdictions. What it boils down to is that the equipment vendor (you) needs a locally licensed GC if there are three or more trades involved in the project. One possible 'out' is that if the job is primarily electrical (the bulk of the money is going to the EC), then the EC can be the 'primary' contractor, and act in the place of a GC.

Often regulatory agencies will have some form of expedited licensing for single projects.
 
I don't understand how you obtained a permit to do electrical work without an electrical license, but that is not your question. When they say the builder needs to be licensed they mean a construction supervisors license
 
This is just the Commonwealth of Massachusetts being difficult. We'd prefer to keep our money here in the state until we're ready to fly to the Bahamas for vacation.
 
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