🔐 Bonding & Surety
Bonding is how you bid public work and larger private jobs. This hub links every guide, calculator, workflow, and template on surety bonds on support.construction.
Key principle
Bonding capacity is a derived number. Your surety does not use the balance sheet your CPA printed — it recomputes it. The tools below turn that into numbers you can act on.
Start here
Understand it
- How Surety Bonds Actually Work — pillar explainer
- The Seven Bonds a Contractor Meets — bid, performance, payment, maintenance, license, ERISA, subdivision
- How Sureties Read Your Financials — as-given vs as-allowed
- Surety & Bonding Glossary
- How Bond Rate Tables Are Structured
Price it
- What Construction Bonds Actually Cost
- Bond Premium Calculator
- Bonding Capacity Calculator
- Surety Readiness Scorecard
Get it
- Getting Bonded for the First Time
- Bonding Capacity Explained
- The General Indemnity Agreement
- Prequalification Letters
- Surety Submission Checklist
- Contractor Questionnaire Template
Run it
- Bond Request & Issuance Process
- Surety Document Calendar
- Bond Closeout & Final Premium
- Annual Surety Review
- Running a Surety Program
- Bond Issuance Checklist
- Bid Bond Request Form
- Performance & Payment Bond Request
- Bond Register
Fix it
- When a Bond Claim Happens — principal default and payment bond claims
- Payment Bond Claims — claimant deadlines and procedures
- Payment Bond Claim Procedure
- Bonding Capacity Management — relationship and growth
Related on this site
- WIP Reporting — drives analyzed working capital
- Financial Statements
- Banking Relationships
- Markup & Profit Calculator — carry bond cost in your bid
Legacy overview
This page replaces the old single-page bonding overview. For payment bond claimant rights specifically, see Payment Bonds.