By-passing the Agency.

[zara_backdog]

I got my current gig through an agency, it is working for an IT Consultancy\Managed Service company and I am sub-contracted to one of their clients as a BA\Consultant on one of their major projects. I was taken on after a phone interview and the Consultancy company contacted me directly – the agency did not know they had offered the job to me there and then.

I am coming up to the end of my current contact – Job done, and the Consultancy company have suggested that there could be more work for me with some of their other clients if I wanted ( depending upon location of the client)

My rate is not too bad, but I am wondering to suggest to the Consulting Company if I could work for them directly and not via the agency, thereby securing a better daily rate.

Can’t see anything in my contract that prevents me working directly for clients – but has anyone else done anything like this.

[thunderlizard]

Yes. The best thing isn't a higher daily rate (and what makes you think you'll be able to charge a noticeably higher rate anyway?): it's being free of the agency-controlled way of working. You're no longer constrained to just charging for your own time: if you want to charge a fixed price and send the work out to India while you sit around drinking mojitos because it makes sense for the project, you can do so without being constrained by some rigid one-man-per-contract timesheeting system in Romford.

[Churchill]

I got my current gig through an agency, it is working for an IT Consultancy\Managed Service company and I am sub-contracted to one of their clients as a BA\Consultant on one of their major projects. I was taken on after a phone interview and the Consultancy company contacted me directly – the agency did not know they had offered the job to me there and then.

I am coming up to the end of my current contact – Job done, and the Consultancy company have suggested that there could be more work for me with some of their other clients if I wanted ( depending upon location of the client)

My rate is not too bad, but I am wondering to suggest to the Consulting Company if I could work for them directly and not via the agency, thereby securing a better daily rate.

Can’t see anything in my contract that prevents me working directly for clients – but has anyone else done anything like this.

I think you'll find that you may be constrained by the contract the client has with the agency.

Still, if you're half as good as me, the company will buy you out of any contract complications.