Updated November 13, 2026 · No Shorts Electric
A vetting checklist for property and facility managers: license and insurance checks, code and standards knowledge, response commitments, documentation, and the questions to ask before adding a contractor to your vendor list.
Hiring a commercial electrician is a vendor decision, not a one-off purchase. The contractor will be in your buildings for years, their work will be inspected, and their paperwork will sit in your vendor file. This checklist covers what to verify and what to ask.
Verify before anything else
- A current electrical license in the county where your buildings are, by license number, checked with the county.
- A certificate of insurance showing general liability, workers’ compensation and New York disability coverage, issued to your entity, not a copy of someone else’s.
- Years in business and a physical address on Long Island.
- Reviews that mention commercial or multifamily work, not only residential.
Ask about standards
- Do they run electrical maintenance programs that follow NFPA 70B, and can they show a sample report?
- Do they test emergency lighting and generators on the NFPA 101 and NFPA 110 schedules, and keep the records?
- Do they handle utility rebate and incentive applications, or leave that to you?
- Do they file permits and arrange inspections themselves?
Ask about how they work
- What are their hours, and what is their actual response commitment for a repair call?
- Who is the named contact for your account?
- How are work orders received and confirmed?
- What does the invoice reference, and are repairs quoted before they are done?
- What documentation comes back after each visit?
Red flags
- Claims of round-the-clock service from a small company with no one answering the phone.
- Reluctance to put the license number or insurance in writing.
- Pricing without a scope.
- No written record after a visit.
What we do about it
- Vendor onboarding →
Everything a property or facility manager needs to add No Shorts Electric as an approved vendor: certificate of insurance, W-9, license, workers’ compensation, service area, how work orders are received and how we invoice.
- Repair and troubleshooting →
Dispatch inside business hours for commercial electrical faults: tripping breakers, dead circuits, flickering lights, failed equipment connections and intermittent problems, diagnosed and repaired by licensed electricians.