A subcontractor that is NOT registered with the DIR is listed on a bid for a public works project subject to prevailing wage. The likely consequence is that:

Giải thích

Labor Code §1725.5 requires every contractor and subcontractor on covered public work to be registered before it is listed on a bid, awarded work, or allowed to perform, and §1725.5(e) makes an unregistered listing grounds to treat the bid as nonresponsive. The prime-only reading ignores that the statute names subcontractors expressly. Registering later does not cure the defect, because the duty attaches at bid listing. Registration is the contractor's own filing with the DIR; no awarding body registers a firm on its behalf.