Subcontract & Manage
Teams On Demand

Spot on.

We came to SOS Teams after years of relying on word-of-mouth recommendations and a contacts book that hadn't been updated since 2019. The difference is night and day. Within forty minutes of posting a request for an NRSWA-accredited reinstatement crew in South Yorkshire, we had three teams respond, all with up-to-date certifications visible on their profiles. We picked one, agreed a daily rate through the counter-offer tool, and had a signed digital contract before lunch. The crew turned up the following morning, did a clean job on the trench reinstatements, and we paid through the platform the same afternoon. What used to be a week of phone calls and back-and-forth emails is now an afternoon's work. Genuinely impressed.

Decent platform, does what it says on the tin.

I'll be honest, I was sceptical when my operations manager first suggested we try an online marketplace for subcontractors. We've been burned before by agencies sending us crews that couldn't tell a mole plough from a mini excavator. But the verification badges on SOS Teams actually mean something — we checked one team's NERS registration directly with the network operator and it matched what was listed on their profile. The compliance dashboard is another thing I didn't know I needed. It tracks our own team's certification expiry dates and pings us a month before anything lapses, which has already saved us from a lapsed CSCS card that would have cost us a day's work on a nuclear site. The stage payments feature has also changed how we quote for larger jobs. We used to invoice everything at the end and chase payment for weeks. Now we agree milestones with the client upfront, the platform tracks each one, and we get paid within a day of each stage being signed off. It's improved our cash flow noticeably. My only minor gripe is that the mobile app can be a bit slow to load the team search filters on older phones, but that's a small price to pay for what we get.

Found a good team quickly. Would use again.

We've been listing our reinstatement teams on SOS Teams for about eight months now and it's become our single biggest source of new contracts. Before this we were spending a fortune on Google Ads and getting maybe two or three decent leads a month. Now we get approached by companies looking for our specific skill set — cold lay asphalt, thermal reinstatement, ironwork adjustments — without lifting a finger. The profile lets us showcase our certifications, previous projects, and team availability, which means the companies that contact us are already pre-qualified and serious. We've also started using the platform to hire specialist crews ourselves when we're stretched. Last month we needed a vacuum excavation team for a job in Essex and found one within the hour. The upfront payment model took some getting used to — we're used to 30-day invoice terms — but honestly it's made clients commit faster and we've had zero late payments since switching. The premium subscription paid for itself in the first fortnight.

Great service, no complaints.

The digital contracts are a game-changer for us. We used to email PDFs back and forth, get them printed, signed, scanned, and half the time the signature page would come back blurry or on the wrong page. Now both parties sign online, the document is timestamped, stored against the contract record, and we can pull it up any time. Had a client try to dispute the agreed daily rate last month and we just sent them the signed contract with the counter-offer history attached. That was the end of that conversation. The messenger tool keeps all project comms in one place too, so there's no more digging through Outlook folders trying to find who said what about the induction date.

Works well for us.

We run a mid-sized civils outfit covering the Midlands and down into the Home Counties, and finding reliable subcontractors used to be the bane of my existence. Every time we won a job outside our usual patch I'd spend days ringing round, asking favours, and hoping the crew that turned up was actually as good as their mate said they were. SOS Teams has basically solved that problem. The rating and review system means you can see what other companies thought of a team before you commit, and because the reviews are tied to completed contracts, you know they're genuine. We used the AI matchmaking tool for the first time last week on a tricky sewer connection job — it pulled up three teams with the exact confined-space tickets we needed, all within a forty-mile radius of the site. We went with the highest-rated one, agreed stage payments for the three phases of the job, and everything went through without a hitch. The crew was professional, the work was tidy, and we paid the final stage the same day they finished. I've already recommended the platform to two other contractors in our network and I'll keep doing it.