Ought We Have Spoken Sooner About the Contract?
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Ought We Have Spoken Sooner About the Contract?
When the compliance review finally reached our department, several of us admitted privately that we ought to have raised concerns months earlier. The contract looked efficient on paper, yet efficient it was not for the subcontractors who absorbed hidden costs without formal recourse.
Maria, who led the negotiation team, said we needn't have accepted the liability clause in its original form. Needn't have, she repeated, because legal counsel would have revised it had we requested review before signature. Request review we did not, and scarcely had the first invoice arrived when disputes began.
What the finance director needed was transparency about transfer pricing, not optimistic assumptions embedded in a footnote. Ought we to have insisted on clearer language? Most of us now think we ought, though at the time few dared challenge the vice president openly.