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Die Arbeiten werden auf Nachweis ausgeführt
Trying to translate a subcontractor quotation, I found this line, which appears to be some sort of generic term or condition but also a bit of an idiom which doesn’t have an obvious direct translation that makes sense in English.
Has anyone seen this before and/or could please help me put it into a logical English sentence?
Auf Nachweis means that the (sub-)contractor keeps tracks of all work that was done (-> Arbeitsnachweis, or colloquially Stundenzettel), including time, executed tasks, used machinery (optional) and time to drive to building site, which is signed and supplied to the customer to be countersigned. This is the basis for the subsequent billing - basically hourly rate in English.
Another model of billing would be a fixed rate (Festpreis), where the contractor "wins" if he is faster than expected and "looses" when the work proves to be more time-consuming than estimated at the beginning.
