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Bidding and prequalification in California

A California bid list checks your license status, your DIR registration and your insurance before anybody looks at your number. These guides cover what a general contractor asks for, how to have it sitting ready, and where the public agencies advertise the work.

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After you qualifyGetting on GC bid listsUnder Pub. Contract Code s.4104 a sub performing more than one-half of one percent of the total bid has to be named in the envelope. Covers the prequalification pack, what a GC checks first, and why the useful call happens two weeks before bid day.How to run the businessWhere work is startingBuilding permits, Caltrans advertisements and CEQAnet filings are all published before any invitation goes out. Read a permit status to know when to call, and use the 30 and 45 day CEQA review clocks to arrive years before a bid list exists.After you qualifyBid ready checklistThe seven things an agency verifies before it reads your price: active license and classification, DIR registration for you and every listed sub, comp in force, named endorsements, security at 10 percent of the bid, and the one-half of one percent listing threshold.

The rest of the California library

Getting and keeping a CSLB licensePreliminary notices and mechanics liens in CaliforniaRetention on California jobsPrevailing wage and public works in CaliforniaBuilding standards on a California siteCal/OSHA on a construction siteWorkers comp for California contractorsSales tax for California contractors
Every guideThe whole California libraryAfter you qualify