CONTRATADA vs CONTRATANTE

11:58 Sep 25, 2020 

I have decided to use Douglas Bissell's suggestion.

22:34 Sep 24, 2020 

Another solution for this is the use of "We" and "You" for the parties, something that is unacceptable in Portuguese, but I've seen it many times in English, above all in the IT/Internet industry. I would never suggest it, but it is a solution.

19:20 Sep 24, 2020 

Translators have struggled with this question for years. I appreciate Mark's clarification that all parties to a contract are contracting parties. In lieu of an effort to portray the capacity of that party, such as Client or Purchaser or Principal, I have seen the actual name of the "contratante" such as "ABC Corporation." When it comes to government contracts we see the department name, or "Procurement Officer" or "Purchasing Office" or other inventions...luckily that is not the case here

19:12 Sep 23, 2020 

We must also take into account the jargon used in contracts, i.e., the way these terms are already widely translated. We don't have to find alternatives. Contratadas are translated as "Contractors", because you have "subcontratadas" that are "subcontractors". And "contratante" is usually translated as "Client". This is standard in contracts.
You can't user "Service Provider" if the contractor is the supplier of materials or equipment and does not provide services. You can't use "Vendor" if they are service providers and will supply no assets. The general term that fits all categories must be used.

15:29 Sep 23, 2020 

Sometimes, contracts can get into a muddle and that is why good contracts create a legend/glossary to define who the contracting party and contracted party are, but you may find that the author uses CONTRATADA/CONTRATANTE incorrectly at times, but these are the boilerplate terms that I use in all such documents, unless stated otherwise. Consistency is essential and once you are happy with the denomination for each party, stick with this throughout.

12:13 Sep 23, 2020 

The hirer is the lessee, i.e. the party that pays to use equipment, i.e. the locatário, not the locador. This error is repeated in Dicionário Jurídico, Maria Chaves de Mello.
The neologism hiree only refers to a person who is hired to work.

11:55 Sep 23, 2020 

not so much used in the sense of parties to a contract but as:
CONTRATANTE: the company who outsources services from other companies (CONTRATADAS).

In the light of this, I'd say these 2 terms are closer to 'hirer' and hirees', except that as Mark says, these terms are not used for services.

'outsoucer' and 'outsouced'??
Or is it better to stick closer to the source terms, ambiguous though they may be, and go with Douglas's suggestion, CONTRACTED VS CONTRACTING PARTY?

Thank you everyone for your help, but I'm going cross-eyed here trying to decide :(

10:06 Sep 23, 2020 

1. Contracting Parties: All parties to a contract are contracting parties. Likewise all parties to a contract are partes contratantes/contratantes. Vocabulário Jurídico, De Plácido e Silva, 26ª Ed., pág. 373. However, the Dicionário Marcílio refers to a second usage of contratante, i.e. when used in contradistinction to contratada. There is no equivalent usage in English.
2. Contractor: The standard usage is that a contractor is a person who contracts to do work for another person, but strictly speaking a contractor is any person who enters into a contract, i.e. the same as contracting party. Blacks Law Dictionary, 6th Ed., p. 326.
3. Contracted party is equivalent to Contratada and means e.g. "the consultants, contractors, and their subconsultants and subcontractors and any other party providing material or services", i.e. a broader meaning than the standard meaning of contractor.
https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/contracted-party
4. Accordingly, Contracting Party is the "odd man out" and is not equivalent to Contratante.