In plain English
This means the job has been given to an external company or worker. It marks a repair or service request as one where that contractor has been chosen to do the work.
In context
Here, it shows that an outside contractor has been assigned to handle the job.
- Situation
- Setting up utilities and submitting maintenance, repair, and access requests
- What it communicates
- shows that an outside contractor has been assigned to the job.
Meaning limits
By itself, this status does not say when the work will happen or whether it has started.
Examples
“The blocked drain repair is vendor assigned, so an outside contractor rather than the building's own maintenance staff will carry out the work.”
“After the heating request was vendor assigned, the caretaker passed the gate code to the contractor.”