Sep
26
Grow Your Construction Business by Establishing (or Improving) Your Bond Program

It’s easy to tell your customers that you will fulfill your contractual obligations. It’s also easy to tell them that you are trustworthy. But how about…

the solid assurance of a corporate surety’s guarantee that your work will be performed in a timely manner and your bills will be paid?

Backed by a Company with a Financial Interest

When your company is bonded, you are showing potential clients that you are worthy of the performance and payment guarantees of a surety company. It demonstrates not only that your business is worth backing, but that you proved to expert underwriters that you have:

  1. The experience and ability to successfully complete the customer’s contract
  2. Adequate finances & equipment
  3. An indication of good character  

Surety bonds create added comfort for clients. Bonding shows potential clients and their lenders that you are capable of guaranteeing your contract. A bond doesn’t just make you look good, it protects your clients and lenders against the possibility that you will breach the contract.

Following Legal Guidelines

In some industries, bonding is more than a source of reassurance. It is a regulatory requirement when contracting with City, County, State and Federal owners. If you want to expand in these public areas of business, surety support is critical.

Bonds for Growth

Bonds position your business to grow revenue in both the public and private sectors; not to mention the added edge over non-bonded competitors. 

Don’t just tell your customers that you can perform your contract. Show them with a bond!

For more information contact:

Zach Bradley
zach@suretyss.com
866-385-7760

Jan
10
2019 Contractors Bid Bonds: Plan Ahead for New Projects

Contractors are gearing up for the 2019 construction season. They are surveying the landscape; reviewing new infrastructure projects for opportunities.

It all starts with bid bonds, and the wise contractors have a surety bond program established long before they ever start bidding public work. Why spend the time and money estimating a job if you are unable to get the necessary bid, performance and payment bonds?

Bid bonds are most closely associated with the construction of roads, utilities, bridges or public buildings. However, almost any publicly funded contract (including construction & non-construction) requires bonding, so there’s a seemingly endless list of business trades that need bonds.  Once the bid is won, the contractor needs to know they can count on their surety partner to turn that bid bond into performance and payment bonds quickly.

Surety Support Services expertly handles virtually any bid bond even on short notice, and at no cost.  As Zach Bradley, President of Surety Support Service states, “The most unique thing about how we handle bid bonds is that we get them written with others can’t.” That is largely due to the years of experience dealing with difficult or hard to place contract bonds and bonds with unusual circumstances.

“There is a scenario when a bid bond could be approved but not a performance bond.  The surety is less comfortable writing a final bond if the contractor’s bid is more than 10% lower than the next lowest bidder,” Zach explains.  A large bid spread and/or the surety receiving deteriorating contractor financial information are a few reasons why the surety would write a bid bond but then hesitate with writing the final bonds. “The surety will likely ask for more information or have stricter terms, or they may refuse to write the final bonds altogether. After we verify with the surety that wrote the bid bond that they do not wish to write the final bonds, we roll up our sleeves and go to work exploring every possibility to help.  We welcome the challenge of providing those badly needed final bonds,” he continues.

The Bid Bond represents contractor prequalification, and that goes a long way towards building confidence with the project owner. When an owner receives a bid bond, they are receiving proof that an independent party (the surety) has vetted the business and deemed it to have the financial and professional capabilities of completing the project. It separates those contractors who have been prequalified (and are bondable) from those who have not. Contact Surety Support Service today for your next bid bond.


For more information contact:Zach Bradley
zach@suretyss.com
866-385-7760

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