When you build public improvements in a Queen Anne's County development — roads, water, sewer, stormwater — the Commissioners of Queen Anne's County require a performance bond guaranteeing the work is completed to County standards. The County sets the amount — we issue it at a flat 3% with one soft credit pull.
















Your development approval is waiting on this bond. Here is the whole process — no broker phone tag:
Your business details, the bond amount the County set, the effective date, and a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. That is the entire application.
Most clear quickly; if underwriting needs anything, an underwriter reaches out within 48 hours. The credit check is a soft pull that never affects your score.
Pay online and receive the executed bond ready to file with the County to satisfy your development or public-improvements agreement. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the County insists.
Bond amount × 3% = your premium, one-time, $275 minimum. Enter the figure Queen Anne's County set and the premium updates.
Queen Anne's County conditions development and subdivision approvals on the public improvements being built — roads, water mains, sewer, stormwater. The Commissioners of Queen Anne's County, through the Department of Public Works, require a performance bond standing behind that work.
The bond is a performance guarantee: it backs the improvements being completed to the County's standards and specifications on the schedule the agreement sets. Queen Anne's County (the obligee) can draw on the bond to complete the improvements with another contractor if you stop or fail.
It is not insurance for you. If the County draws on the bond and the surety pays, you repay the surety. The amount the County sets is generally the engineer-estimated cost of the public improvements, and the bond is often reduced as work is accepted.
These are the actual underwriting fields, including a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. Submit once and your bond is typically issued within 1–2 business days.
Start the application →If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
Flat 3%, five-minute application, e-signed bond in 1–2 business days. Free until issued.