Federal construction bids require bid, performance, and payment bonds under the Miller Act, and a bidder that misreads the amounts or the surety requirements submits a non responsive bid.
What the bonding requirements set
Under FAR Part 28 and the Miller Act, federal construction work requires a bid bond with the bid and 100 percent performance and payment bonds at award, from an acceptable surety. The solicitation sets the amounts, the forms, and the surety qualifications the bid must satisfy.
Why bonding is easy to get wrong
The bond amounts, the acceptable surety, and the forms sit in the bonding section and the instructions, not the title, and a bid bond in the wrong amount or form is non responsive. The capacity the bonds consume also affects the go or no go.
How an AI bid response agent reads bonding
An AI bid response agent reads the package, extracts the bid, performance, and payment bond requirements with their amounts and forms, and marks them against your bonding capacity so the bid is responsive and the capacity is planned.
You can see the bonding requirements extracted from a federal package in our AI bid response agent demo for construction and infrastructure RFPs. It reads the Miller Act bond amounts and forms so the bid is responsive.