Category: Construction Bond

Rhode Island Construction Bidding Process

Rhode Island Construction Bidding Process

Surety Bond Professionals is a family-owned and operated bonding agency with over 75 years of experience. With access to a broad range of surety markets, our expert agents are ready to assist with all of your construction bond needs. 

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Texas Construction Bidding Process

Texas Construction Bidding Process

Surety Bond Professionals is a family-owned and operated bonding agency with over 75 years of experience. With access to a broad range of surety markets, our expert agents are ready to assist with all of your construction bond needs.     

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Connecticut Construction Bidding Process

Connecticut Construction Bidding Process

Surety Bond Professionals is a family-owned and operated bonding agency with over 75 years of experience. With access to a broad range of surety markets, our expert agents are ready to assist with all of your construction bond needs. 

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California Construction Bidding Process

California Construction Bidding Process

Surety Bond Professionals is a family-owned and operated bonding agency with over 75 years of experience. With access to a broad range of surety markets, our expert agents are ready to assist with all of your construction bond needs.     

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Colorado Construction Bidding Process

Colorado Construction Bidding Process

Surety Bond Professionals is a family-owned and operated bonding agency with over 75 years of experience. With access to a broad range of surety markets, our expert agents are ready to assist with all of your construction bond needs.  What is the Bid Process in Construction?  The construction bidding process involves five steps: bid solicitation, bid submission, bid selection, contract formation, and project delivery. For a contractor in Colorado to achieve success in the construction bidding process, you need to plan and improve in each of these areas.  If you’re a new contractor or are looking to secure more bids more often, follow our guide below.  What Should a Construction Bid Include?  Successful construction bids generally contain the total cost of building the structure, including expenses for subcontractors, general contractors’ costs, overhead profit, and scope of work. A bid will also need to contain information such as company details, the date, a clear definition of the work, and a project name. Without all of these elements combined, you may not meet the necessary standards.  How Do You Estimate a Construction Bid?  An accurate estimate is not only vital for winning a bid but it can also determine which Colorado...

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Vermont Construction Bidding Process

Vermont Construction Bidding Process

Surety Bond Professionals is a family-owned and operated bonding agency with over 75 years of experience. With access to a broad range of surety markets, our expert agents are ready to assist with all of your construction bond needs. 

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Massachusetts Construction Bidding Process

Massachusetts Construction Bidding Process

Surety Bond Professionals is a family-owned and operated bonding agency with over 75 years of experience. With access to a broad range of surety markets, our expert agents are ready to assist with all of your construction bond needs. 

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Florida Construction Bidding Process

Florida Construction Bidding Process

Surety Bond Professionals is a family-owned and operated bonding agency with over 75 years of experience. With access to a broad range of surety markets, our expert agents are ready to assist with all of your construction bond needs.    

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How Often Do You Pay for Surety Bonds?

How Often Do You Pay for Surety Bonds?

Surety bonds are widely used in industries such as construction, government contracting, energy and utilities, real estate, and finance to provide project owners, clients, and regulatory bodies assurance against loss. Because surety bonds and insurance have some features in common, it’s not unusual for people purchasing a surety bond for the first time to assume they can pay for it in monthly premium payments, like they pay for their insurance policies. But that’s not generally the case.  

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8 Best Ways to Minimize Profit Fade in Construction

8 Best Ways to Minimize Profit Fade in Construction

Surety Bond Professionals is a family owned and operated bonding agency with over 30 years of experience. With access to a broad range of surety markets, our expert agents are ready to assist with all of your construction bond needs. What Is Profit Fade? No contractor wants to discover that they aren’t going to make as much profit on a project as initially estimated. Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon to find that the profit margin for a given construction project shrinks or even disappears by the time work is completed. It’s even more unfortunate that sometimes, that “profit fade” doesn’t become apparent until it’s too late to do much about it.  Project owners and surety bond providers typically require periodic financial reports showing the percentage of project completion and the profit recognized as of each reporting date. In a perfect world, those percentages match—when 50% of a project has been completed, 50% of the total estimated profit has been recognized, and so on. At the end of the project, when 100% of the work has been completed, and 100% of the estimated profit has been recognized. It’s when 100% of the profit has been recognized before 100% of the work...

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