With 2iCS Business Development Services, Outsource the Management of Your Freelance Contractors
Working with a growing number of independent consultants inevitably creates a significant administrative workload. Contracts to draft, documents to review, invoices to process, legal risks to anticipate... this complexity diverts your teams from their core business.
Business Development Services enable you to outsource the management of your freelance contractors, optimize the associated costs, and benefit from a single point of contact within a secure legal framework.
2iCS, Your Partner in Achieving Your Ambitions!
An Experienced Partner
More than 15 years of experience, nationwide presence, a single point of contact, and practices fully compliant with regulatory requirements
The Strength of a Group by Your Side
2iCS is part of 2i group, a leading partner dedicated to supporting independent professionals and businesses
The Assurance of a Secure Legal Framework
Compliant contracts and a well-structured contractual relationship that protects all parties involved
The Benefits of Business Development Services
You retain full operational control over your projects while 2iCS takes care of all the administrative and legal complexity through a single master agreement.
You only need to register one supplier in your procurement system and delegate:
- Verification and collection of legal compliance documents from each freelancer
- Drafting and management of commercial subcontracting agreements
- Issuance and processing of purchase orders
- Administrative management of assignment renewals
- Processing and payment of subcontractor invoices
- Mitigation of worker misclassification risks
Your teams can focus on delivering successful projects rather than managing freelance contractors.
Why Choose Business Development Services Instead of Managing Independent Contractors Directly?
Managing multiple freelancers directly can expose your company to risks that are often underestimated.
LEGAL RISK
A poorly drafted contract or an overly controlled relationship with an independent contractor may be reclassified as an employment relationship, with significant consequences for your business. With 2iCS, the contractual structure is designed to ensure the compliance of every engagement while preserving the subcontractor’s independence, a key requirement for maintaining regulatory compliance.
OPERATIONAL RISK DUE TO MULTIPLE POINTS OF CONTACT
Each new freelancer represents an additional supplier to onboard, manage, and follow up with. Through Business Development Services, your Procurement Department only manages a single supplier under one master agreement and receives a single consolidated invoice, without the need to hire dedicated internal resources to oversee these processes.
AGILITY
A dedicated advisor supports you in quickly onboarding the talent you need, without burdensome administrative delays.
What Are the Steps in a Business Development Services Project?
- Identifying the Requirement
You identify the freelancer or independent contractor you would like to work with. 2iCS becomes involved from this stage to establish the appropriate contractual framework. - Purchase Order Setup
A purchase order is issued, creating the contractual link between your company and 2iCS for the purpose of outsourcing the management of your freelance subcontractors. At the same time, 2iCS collects and verifies the freelancer’s legal compliance documents, then drafts and validates the subcontracting agreement with them. - Assignment Delivery
The freelance subcontractor carries out the assignment under the agreed conditions. You remain responsible for managing deliverables, while 2iCS ensures administrative continuity. - Administrative Closure
2iCS processes the freelance subcontractor’s invoices, manages any assignment renewals, and provides you with consolidated, centralized billing.
This process applies regardless of the contractor’s legal status: sole trader, limited company, single-member company, or any other business structure holding a valid business registration number.
Who Is 2iCS Business Development Services Designed For?
- Companies that regularly work with external consultants and want to simplify the management of freelance subcontractors while optimizing the associated costs.
- SMEs, procurement departments, and project managers within large organizations that work with multiple contractors simultaneously, without having the internal resources required to manage the related administrative and legal processes.
- Organizations subject to strict compliance requirements from their finance and accounting departments, where complete documentation and traceability for every subcontracting engagement is essential.
How a Leading European IT Company Simplified Freelancer Management with 2iCS
A major French group and one of the leading IT companies in France and across Europe regularly works with a large network of freelance subcontractors to meet client demands and successfully deliver projects.
The company wanted to ensure that every contractor complied with its internal requirements, particularly regarding supplier onboarding, verification of legal compliance documents, and monitoring the financial reliability of subcontractors. However, managing each of these processes individually created a significant administrative burden and required substantial internal resources.
To streamline its operations and provide an additional benefit to its freelance subcontractors, the company chose the Business Development Services solution offered by 2iCS, which included an invoice advance payment service for freelancers' monthly invoices. Instead of onboarding each freelance subcontractor individually, the company integrated 2iCS as a single supplier. 2iCS now manages all administrative and contractual aspects of the subcontractor relationship, including the collection and verification of legal documents, contract management, administrative follow-up, and invoice processing.
The result: the company was able to continue expanding its projects with greater agility, reduce its administrative workload, secure its relationships with subcontractors, and accelerate the launch of new assignments, all while benefiting from a controlled and compliant legal framework.
Do You Have Any Other Questions?
Ibrahim HACHEM, Head of Sales
is available to assist you on +33 6 08 67 56 30 or at ibrahim.hachem@2igroup.fr
Get in touch with Ibrahim, our Business Development Services expert
Ibrahim
FAQ
A French EOR complete solution is an alternative to setting up a company for independent consultants who wish to operate their business while retaining employee status.
Business Development Services are designed for client companies. They outsource the entire contractual, administrative, and financial management of their freelance contractors without changing the contractors' legal status.
A French EOR complete solution can also enable companies to assess talent before making a permanent hire or to engage consultants who do not have their own business structure.
The master agreement can be put in place quickly.
Once signed, each new assignment can be integrated into the framework within just a few days, as soon as the freelance contractor’s required legal compliance documents have been received.
Primarily, they help mitigate the legal risks associated with freelancing and subcontracting, including the risk of a subcontracting agreement being reclassified as an employment contract and the risk of illegal labour leasing.
2iCS structures each contractual relationship to ensure the contractor’s independence and the full compliance of the engagement.
Yes. 2iCS Business Development Services can be used with any contractor holding a valid business registration number, regardless of their legal status. Whether they operate as a sole trader, a limited liability company, a single-member company, or any other registered business structure, they can be managed through the same framework.
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