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Volume 12 Number 2 Career and Business Opportunities


City of Portsmouth - Purchasing Department 801 Crawford Street


Portsmouth, VA. 23704-3822 Invitation to Bid


Sewer Spot Repair Marlboro Road ITB -896/18-0-2018/DC


The City of Portsmouth will receive sealed bids/proposals from qualified firms to furnish the goods and/or services identified in the specifications document.


Scope of Work: The City of Portsmouth is seeking bids for sewer spot repair and milling and overlaying of concrete services at the 100 block of Marlboro Rd. and 300 block of Sumter St., per the attached specifications. A performance bond will be required of the successful bidder.


Ordering Instructions: This package can be downloaded from Onvia DemandStar on our website at http://www.demandstar. com.


Document Cost: fee, plus shipping and handling, for delivered hard copies of documents posted, only, to the Onvia DemandStar Web site; $5.00 for any document package electronically downloaded from the Onvia DemandStar Web site by members without subscriptions that include the City of Portsmouth in their subscription service territory.


Bid Bond: 5%


Pre/Bid Proposal Conference: None Due Date/Time: 11/28/2017 2:00 PM Eastern


City of Portsmouth - Purchasing Department must receive bids/ proposals no later than said date and time.


NOTE: ALL PROSPECTIVE BIDDERS/RESPONDENTS ARE HEREBY CAUTIONED NOT TO CONTACT ANY MEMBER OF THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH PURCHASING STAFF OR OFFICIALS OTHER THAN THE SPECIFIED CONTACT PERSON.


Minority-Owned, Woman-Owned, and Small Business Enterprises are encouraged to respond to this solicitation.


Contact: Diane Culpepper Buyer


Phone: 757-393-8858


November 2017


SBA Names Most Active Surety Partners for FY17


WASHINGTON – Te U.S. Small


Business Administration announced today its most active surety companies and agencies for fiscal year (FY) 2017, which contributed to increases in the Surety Bond Guarantee (SBG) Program’s activity.


“FY2017 yielded impressive


numbers that would not have been possible without our top performing surety partners and bond agencies,” said Peter Gibbs, Acting Director for the Office of Surety Guarantees. “Te SBA is very pleased with the results that we have seen, and the tremendous impact made on small businesses by not only contributing to the economy, but also by creating economic opportunities for other Americans.”


Te SBA’s Surety Bond Guarantee


Program provides surety bond guarantees for small businesses on federal, state, local and private projects. Commercial construction, service and supply contracts and subcontracts are eligible as long as the contract requires a surety bond.


Te SBA guarantees surety bonds


in direct partnership with surety companies and their agents.


In FY2017, the SBA’s guaranteed


bid and final bonds were more than $6.0 billion in total contract value. With the work of the SBA’s top performing surety partners and bond agencies, over 1,600 small businesses were assisted and over 26,000 jobs were supported.


Te top performing surety


partners for FY2017 are: 1. 2.


Surety Co. of America 3.


Company 4.


Insurance Co. 5.


Tokio Marine/HCC


Travelers Casualty and Navigators Insurance Contractors Bonding &


Amtrust Companies


of North America 7.


6. Te Guarantee Company Suretec Insurance Co.


Co. Co.


8. Westchester Fire Insurance


9. Te Cincinnati Insurance 10.


CNA: Western Surety Co.


in FY2017 follow: 1. 2. 3.


Company 4.


Agency 7.


Te top performing bond agencies CCI Surety, Inc.


KOG International, Inc. Nielson, Hoover and


Preferred Bonding


Services 5. Te Fedeli Group 6.


Insurance Services, Inc. 8.


10.


Valley Surety Insurance Pinnacle Surety &


dba Marcia Smith Surety Insurance 9.


Bond Specialist Insurance Construction Bonds, Inc.


Tomas Sauer Bond


Agency Te standing of each surety


partner and agent was determined by the number of bonds they wrote through the SBG Program. Te mission of the SBA’s Office of Surety Guarantees is to provide and manage surety bond guarantees for qualified small and emerging businesses, in direct partnership with surety companies. Te SBA helps small contractors by guaranteeing bid, performance, and payment bonds issued by participating surety companies for contracts up to $6.5 million.


Te SBA can guarantee a bond


for a contract up to $10 million if a Federal contracting officer certifies that SBA’s guarantee is necessary for the small business to obtain bonding. Te SBA also guarantees QuickApps for contracts up to $400,000 with limited paperwork that is approved within hours.


For questions regarding the


program, please visit the program website at www.sba.gov/osg or contact Peter Gibbs at peter.gibbs@sba.gov or (202) 205-6540.


For information on part-time and full-time career opportunities, call: 757-575-1863


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