Hi all, long time no post. I've actually had some project work to be getting on with; whew.
Obviously we are all aware of the pending reforms to IR35 and I don't know about everyone else, but my end client (FTSE-100) are simply following the banks. They've set a really crap precedent for everyone else to follow. For those with war chests large enough to ride it out for a year or two until clients start to get sensible about it, good for you. For anyone who doesn't - read on.
I've come to realise that almost every migration project I have worked on since I became a FTE infra consultant back in 2012 almost always follows the same pattern. It doesn't matter if it's on prem to cloud, cloud to cloud, datacentre to datacentre, etc. The patterns and workflows are all much of a muchness. The key people you need are almost always the same, aside from some skilled engineers in the particular tech you're moving from and to.
With that in mind, I am considering building a PSC specialising in migration and automation which will encompass everything; Project management, technical migration, comms and managing change at the client. Essentially, the PSC will provide everything clients want and pay (genuinely outside IR35) individuals to do today, but all encompassed under one fee (fixed or otherwise - fine details TBD) invoiced at pre-determined billing stages during the project.
I realise this represents a much greater risk than some (not all) contractors are willing to take on. But it also presents an opportunity to genuinely remain outside of IR35 and work on projects 100% of the time. My company (the PSC) would engage with a number of contractors to deliver services at an agreed day rate and provide specifications and scopes of work to each contractor, who in turn would need to produce invoices on an agreed basis to the PSC via their own LTD's for the work delivered. Whole job or day rates would be considered.
My question to the forum is:
A) Am I crazy?
B) Will Hector still try and insert the Black Mamba into the rear door of everyone involved anyway?
C) Is anyone else doing this aside from bigger outfits?
D) Has anyone done this already?
E) Is anyone interested in collaborating?
Obviously we are all aware of the pending reforms to IR35 and I don't know about everyone else, but my end client (FTSE-100) are simply following the banks. They've set a really crap precedent for everyone else to follow. For those with war chests large enough to ride it out for a year or two until clients start to get sensible about it, good for you. For anyone who doesn't - read on.
I've come to realise that almost every migration project I have worked on since I became a FTE infra consultant back in 2012 almost always follows the same pattern. It doesn't matter if it's on prem to cloud, cloud to cloud, datacentre to datacentre, etc. The patterns and workflows are all much of a muchness. The key people you need are almost always the same, aside from some skilled engineers in the particular tech you're moving from and to.
With that in mind, I am considering building a PSC specialising in migration and automation which will encompass everything; Project management, technical migration, comms and managing change at the client. Essentially, the PSC will provide everything clients want and pay (genuinely outside IR35) individuals to do today, but all encompassed under one fee (fixed or otherwise - fine details TBD) invoiced at pre-determined billing stages during the project.
I realise this represents a much greater risk than some (not all) contractors are willing to take on. But it also presents an opportunity to genuinely remain outside of IR35 and work on projects 100% of the time. My company (the PSC) would engage with a number of contractors to deliver services at an agreed day rate and provide specifications and scopes of work to each contractor, who in turn would need to produce invoices on an agreed basis to the PSC via their own LTD's for the work delivered. Whole job or day rates would be considered.
My question to the forum is:
A) Am I crazy?
B) Will Hector still try and insert the Black Mamba into the rear door of everyone involved anyway?
C) Is anyone else doing this aside from bigger outfits?
D) Has anyone done this already?
E) Is anyone interested in collaborating?
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