Honolulu concessionaire bonds.
From $100.
Before the City and County of Honolulu signs a concession contract, the concessionaire must post security for its performance under HRS § 102-11, in most cases a surety bond. The contract sets the penal sum, with a statutory floor of two months of rent and other charges. Our premium is 2% of the bond amount, with a $100 minimum.
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How much does a Honolulu concessionaire bond cost?
2% of the bond amount, from $100. Enter your amount in the calculator for the exact price.
Three steps. One sitting.
Nothing here waits in an underwriting queue. Enter the penal sum your concession contract states, pay, and hand the executed bond to the city before you sign. Here is the whole thing:
Apply online
Your entity details, a short description of the concession agreement, the penal sum your contract requires, the effective date, and a 1-, 2-, or 3-year term — plus a one-time consent that authorizes a soft credit pull.
Pay & e-sign
Your price is final at checkout — 2% of the bond amount, with a $100 minimum. The application includes a credit consent, but it authorizes a soft credit pull only — a soft inquiry that never affects your score. One soft credit pull, never a hard inquiry, and it never affects your score.
File with the city
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to give to the officer letting your contract — the Department of Enterprise Services concession administrator, or the Division of Purchasing for concessions solicited outside the DES portfolio. Wet-ink originals mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the Honolulu concessionaire bond actually guarantees
Honolulu does not run its own visitor services. It grants a concession — which HRS § 102-1 defines as the privilege of selling goods, wares, merchandise or services to the public, operating a parking lot, or using public space for advertising or communications — to a private operator, on land and in buildings the city controls. The Department of Enterprise Services (DES) prepares, administers and enforces the citywide concession contracts, roughly three dozen of them, covering the Honolulu Zoo, the city golf courses, the Neal S. Blaisdell Center, Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve and various city parks. Concessions outside the DES portfolio are solicited through the Division of Purchasing in the Department of Budget and Fiscal Services. Whichever office lets the contract, the security runs to the City and County of Honolulu.
The bond is a full and faithful performance guarantee on the concession contract itself. HRS § 102-11(b) requires every form of security to be conditioned on performance "in accordance with the terms and intent" of the contract and, by its terms, to inure to the benefit of the State or of the county. It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City and County of Honolulu (the obligee), with the public that owns the property as the protected party. What the city recovers against is contract failure — unpaid rent or percentage-of-gross fees, unpaid utilities and other charges, walking away mid-term, damage left behind on city premises. It is not insurance for you: if the surety pays, you repay the surety.
There is no single statutory figure. The penal sum tracks your contract, and § 102-11(b)(2) sets the floor at not less than two months of the rental and other charges the contract requires — the statute names one exception, in-bond merchandise at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, where the bond is at least four months of the highest minimum annual rental guaranty. The form of the security turns on size too: where the contract requires less than four months of rental you may post a bond, legal tender, or a bank instrument such as a cashier’s, treasurer’s, teller’s or certified check or a certificate of deposit — but where it requires four months of rental or more, § 102-11(a)(2) accepts only "a good and sufficient bond." And the security has to exist before the contract does: § 102-11(a) requires it before any contract is entered into, and § 102-7 forfeits a successful bidder’s deposit to the city treasury if the bidder fails to enter the contract and furnish satisfactory security within ten days after the award, or any further time the officer allows.
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Claims, renewal, filing, and what sets the price.
If a claim is made
A claim comes from the party the bond protects, the obligee named on the form, when the duty the bond guarantees is not met.
The surety investigates and pays a valid claim, up to the bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The premium covers a one-year term from the effective date you choose.
Renewal falls on the statutory date, October 8, in the year your term ends.
Renew before the expiry date to keep the bond in force: the license, permit or contract it backs expects continuous coverage.
How to file it
File with the city. Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to give to the officer letting your contract — the Department of Enterprise Services concession administrator, or the Division of Purchasing for concessions solicited outside the DES portfolio. Wet-ink originals mailed on request.
What sets the price
The premium is 2% of the bond amount, $100 minimum: the amount the obligee sets moves the price, not your business profile.
One soft credit pull, never a hard inquiry, and it never affects your score.
Where a check runs, it decides approval; the rate is the same for everyone approved.
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields — your entity details, a short description of the concession agreement, the penal sum your contract requires, your term, and a one-time consent that authorizes a soft credit pull only. Your exact price is set at the application from a $100 minimum.
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Sign the concession contract on schedule.
Enter the penal sum your contract requires, pay, and hand the executed bond to the city the same day. Free until issued.