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Florida instructional materials bonds.
From $100.
A publisher awarded a state instructional materials adoption must give a bond payable to the state for faithful performance of its contract with the Florida Department of Education, under §1006.34(3), Florida Statutes. The Department sets the amount; premiums are 3% of the bond amount, $100 minimum.
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Three steps. One sitting.
The Department's clock starts when the contract lands in your hands, so this is built to close in an afternoon:
Apply online
Your company details, the bond amount from the contract package, and the contract start and end dates. That is the application.
Issued on payment
The rate is verified against live checkout, so the calculator figure is the figure you pay. The application includes a credit consent authorizing a soft pull only, and most approve on the spot.
Return it with the executed contract
Send the bond back to the Instructional Materials Office inside the 30-day window with your signed contract. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the Department asks for them.
What it is and who needs it.
What the publisher bond actually guarantees
Florida runs a state adoption for instructional materials: publishers bid, reviewers evaluate, and the Commissioner adopts a list. After the award, the Department of Education prepares a contract with every bidder awarded an adoption, and §1006.34(3) conditions that contract on a bond given by the publisher or manufacturer, payable to the state, for the faithful, honest, and exact performance of the contract. The Department sets the amount.
What it guarantees is supply. A district that adopts your title is committing years of instruction to it, so the statute is aimed at the publisher who wins the award and then cannot deliver: if a publisher fails or refuses to furnish instructional materials as the contract provides, the bond is forfeited. It also has to provide for reasonable attorney's fees on any recovery, the surety must be a company lawfully authorized to do business in Florida, and the bond is not exhausted by a single recovery — it can be sued on until the full amount is recovered.
There is an alternative and a deadline worth knowing. At the Department's discretion a publisher may post a cash deposit in lieu of a bond, payable to the Department and placed in the Textbook Bid Trust Fund. And the Department's own specification gives a successful bidder 30 calendar days after receipt of the contract to execute it and furnish the surety bond — miss that and the bid deposit is forfeited. Adoption contracts run in multi-year terms, most recently a five-year period, so plan the bond to sit alongside the contract rather than a single school year.
You need this bond if you are
One application, then straight back to the Department.
Enter the bond amount and the contract dates from your award package. The application includes a credit consent that authorizes a soft pull only.
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Beat the 30-day contract deadline.
3% of the bond amount, $100 minimum, bond issued the moment you pay. Free until issued.