In order to work as an sub contractors you should be aware of following points :
1) For government tenders and contracts you should be registered yourself or your firm with government authorities like CPWD ,State PWD ,MES ,Municipal corporations contractors .
2) You should have through knowledge of tendering procedure (now a days Online tendering )
3) You should have all licenses such as Shop act ,GST ,PT ,IT returns ,ESIC ,Work Group Insurance ,
4) Your Qualified team alongwith you are working .
5) For private work contracts also you need these documents .
For searching tenders there are many web sites for govt tenderings as well as pvt works tenders, Most of the ads comes in leading news papers .
I hope these answer will help you to explore more for your queries .
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