Kansas general services performance bonds.
From $100.
A general services or purchasing office does not hand over a signed public contract until the performance bond is in its file: the bond that guarantees you will finish the work on the terms you bid. The penal sum is the figure your contract or bid documents name. Premiums cost 2% of the bond amount, $100 minimum.
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How much does a Kansas general services performance bond cost?
2% of the bond amount, from $100. Enter your amount in the calculator for the exact price.
Three steps. One sitting.
The contract is already sitting unsigned in a purchasing officer’s queue waiting on this one document. Here is the whole thing:
Apply online
Your company details, years in business, the penal sum the contract names, and the effective date. That is the application — no bid tabs to upload, no broker call.
Priced and issued
The premium is calculated from the amount you entered and the bond issues at checkout. The credit consent on the form authorizes a soft inquiry only, which never touches your score.
Return it with the contract
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to go back to the office that issued the contract along with your signed copies and certificates of insurance. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the performance bond actually guarantees
A performance bond is a three-party promise: you are the principal, the surety carrier stands behind you, and the obligee is the public body that awarded the contract — the general services, facilities, or purchasing office named on the award, not the State of Kansas in the abstract. If you walk off, default, or fail to complete on the contract terms, the obligee can call on the surety to finish the job or pay the cost of finishing it, up to the penal sum.
On a State of Kansas building project the sequence is written down. The Department of Administration’s Building Design and Construction Manual has Procurement and Contracts issue unsigned contracts to the contractor, the owner agency, and the Office of Facilities and Property Management (OFPM). Under §10.1.1 the contractor returns those signed contracts together with proof of workers’ compensation, general liability and automobile liability, builder’s risk, a performance bond (Specification Document G), a public works bond (Specification Document H) in an amount equal to the contract price, and the county bond receipt. Only once OFPM has copies of the signed contracts does it write the Notice to Proceed — so the bond is literally what starts contract time.
It is not insurance for you. If the surety pays a claim it looks to you for reimbursement, which is why underwriting cares about years in business and completed work. Keep the bond in force for the whole contract term — including any extension — and give us the new expiry when the contract is amended, so nothing lapses while the retainage is still open.
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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.
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
Priced and issued. The premium is calculated from the amount you entered and the bond issues at checkout. The credit consent on the form authorizes a soft inquiry only, which never touches your score.
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, priced on the spot.
These are the actual issuing fields. The credit consent authorizes a soft inquiry only — it never affects your score.
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Enter the penal sum your award names, see the exact price, and email the executed bond back to the purchasing office today. Free until issued.