Katherine Merold

Thank you all for the feedback. I've scoured many resources on this subject - Thank you for the references and additional info above. All signs that I can find point to requiring these one-man companies to maintain a DBA policy which can be very costly to obtain and very cumbersome/confusing. Has anyone had experience with requiring this of suppliers performing commercial services (this is not work on any military base) in Puerto Rico? Thanks so much!

In your experience, have you required DBA insurance of suppliers for commercial services such as an electrician hooking up a trailer or minor brush clearing? For these types of services, we don't require service agreements/subcontracts, we issue Purchase Orders and consider them ODCs/COTS items.