Hello there,
Okay so I am the manager of a digital marketing agency and I have recently hired an employee.
The days prior to signing the contract, the conversations were running smoothly.
After the signing of the contract though, my employee started being quite pushy about a certain registration to the point where I felt I was being controlled. There were then a few emails where I had to remind my employee about my rank in the business.
My employee did specify that to sign contracts with large businesses, the registrations below are mandatory to proceed:
These are the following places I was dictated to register: to obtain Duns Number, then to get NCAGE code, and finally to register in betasam.
As the discussions about the daily duties I want my employee to carry out, the above registration was mentioned in every single email.
My concern is are these places legitamate to be registering my business?
This has raised a lot of doubts, red flags and questions in my mind whether or not to go ahead with it?
So if any of you have or haven't been in similar situation, please share your inputs on this!
Thank you in advance!
Nothing is *required* to sign contracts with large businesses. If you provide a service that a large business needs, they will find a way to work with you. Furthermore, if they absolutely have a specific requirement, then they will tell you and at that point you will have to find a way to meet their requirements if you want the contract.
My take is that the person you hired is used to working a certain way, and that way included processes that involved DUNS and NCAGE identifiers. You are the boss though so you have the freedom to say no and the employee needs to deal with your decision. They can deal with it in all kinds of ways, from just accepting it, to arguing with you, to cajoling you, to quitting, but they have to deal with it.
Regarding the legitimacy of these registrations, yes DUNS is a common identifier that is used in the business world. sam.gov and CAGE codes appear to be specific to working with the US government. If that's your target market then you'll probably need to go through with it. Also, if that's your target market, good luck.