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As a subcontractor, how to find out if a company (prime) has a surety bond for work on a federal contract

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My company completed work for a federal contract we were subbed to. The prime went silent after we sent in our request for payment late last year. I need to first find out if the prime has a surety bond for the project (which is required under the Miller Act), and then make a claim against that. So far, I have run searches through USFCR using a few different pertinent NAICS codes, but none of the returned contracts was the one we were subbed to.

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Sep 9, 2022

The Owner (in this case the federal agency the Project is for) will provide you with a copy of the Payment Bond and Performance Bond if you send them a FOIA request. Note that you must bring suit within 1 year of your last date of supply of labor or material or the Miller Act claim will be time barred.

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