OR public works bonds.
$900 flat. Five minutes.
Before you start work on an Oregon public works project, ORS 279C.836 requires you to file a $30,000 public works bond with the Construction Contractors Board (CCB). Ours is $900 flat — 3% of the bond amount, identical for every contractor, with no credit check.
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Three steps. One sitting.
The CCB wants this bond before you start a public works job. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Pay & e-sign
The $30,000 public works bond is among the bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with the CCB
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with the Construction Contractors Board before you begin the project. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
The whole pricing page.
$30,000 bond × 3% = $900, one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
What it is and who needs it.
What the public works bond actually covers
Oregon requires every person who must pay prevailing wages on a public works project to file a $30,000 public works bond with the Construction Contractors Board (CCB) before starting work, under ORS 279C.836. This is separate from your CCB contractor license bond — it exists only to cover wages.
The bond covers unpaid prevailing-rate wages and overtime for workers on the project. If the Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) orders a contractor to pay back wages and the contractor doesn’t, the affected workers can recover against the bond.
It applies even to subcontractors whose own contract is under $100,000, as long as the total public works project cost is $100,000 or more — and it applies even if the employer doesn’t hold a CCB license. If the surety pays a wage claim, the contractor repays the surety.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
Start the application →Common questions.
If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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On file with the CCB before you break ground.
$900 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.