A vendor is a person who sells and supply products to a wide range of customers including individual as well as large companies. On the other hand, a sub-contractor is a person or an entity who work under a prime contractor.

Subcontractor example For example, a building contractor may hire a subcontractor to complete the electrical wiring part of the contractor's building job. The contractor is responsible to the client for the building job including the part performed by the subcontractor.

Industrial subcontracting, for the "contractor", consists of entrusting the performance of one or several operations of design, manufacture, deployment or maintenance of the product to the "subcontractor". These operations concern a given production cycle.

Also looking up the Definitions: Third Party is defined as a supplier of ancillary goods or support for a product or service who is neither the primary party nor the user. Subcontractor is defined as a firm or person that carries out work as part of a larger task or project.

Subcontracting refers to the practice of bringing in an outside company or individual to perform specific parts of a contract or project. In most cases, a company subcontracts another business to perform a task that cannot be handled internally.

A vendor is someone who works in the field of selling and supplying items to customers of all sizes, from individuals to multinational businesses. However, a subcontractor is someone or anything that performs work for another business under the direction of the main contractor.