Independent Ratings for Agency

[oracleslave]

I never really understand this. To me it doesn't really matter which agency I go through, all that matters is the rate, the location, and if they pay on time.....

Agreed, although it is prudent to know their track record on occasion and their likely capability to pay in these DOOMED times.

[Spacecadet]

Has anyone managed to get an agency to agree to let them contract and bill direct to the end client effectively cutting the agency out of the billing loop?

[b0redom]

I would be surprised if they had. How would they know if you then went direct?

[BoredBloke]

I have but only when it came to the end of a very long role. The client didn't have the work to justify me for a full week and because their HR dept had this 18month rule in place for contractors I was going to be let go. I got the agency to agree to step out of the picture so that I could do 8 hours per week for them offsite and around any other work I had on. This was only supposed to be for a month while they trained somebody else up to do the role. It ended up being almost a year. Apparnatly their 18 month rule only applied to agency staff and not to contactors working direct.

[r0bly0ns]

Has anyone managed to get an agency to agree to let them contract and bill direct to the end client effectively cutting the agency out of the billing loop?

Yep, but only because the Agency refused to accept the client's contract and the client refused to accept the agency contract.

So instead the client paid the agency a finders fee for the initial 4 month contract and has now been giving us regular work for nearly 2 years