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Some delays are truly beyond the control of the contractor but anyone who has worked with contractors has had the experience of them disappearing to work on some other job/etc. 
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If they're waiting for something on your job, of course they're going to work on another job. Would you rather they just sit idle at your site?[/quote]

We did two bigger projects and both went the same way. Toward the end the contractors would barely show up and the reason was not that they were waiting for anything. They were just dragging their feet while working on another project. I think they underestimated how long our project would take and scheduled new work before ours was done. It was incredibly frustrating. [/quote]

I can't help but think you're misinterpreting what was happening. Every contractor wants to finish the job and get paid.

But if there's a critical path task that just has to wait, it makes no sense to keep working until it's resolved. It takes more time to start and stop than it does to do a job all the way through.  I'll offer the competing hypothesis that every job proceeds swimmingly until the roadblocks pile up, and then doesn't start up again until they're all cleared. [/quote]

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