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Finding construction work in Florida

Permits are public in Florida and they get pulled weeks before anybody is hired. These guides cover the permit feeds, the counties worth watching, and the restoration work that appears without a tender at all.

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How to run the businessFind Florida construction bidsFilter 2,148 live Florida contract awards, tenders and building permits down to your trade and your county in one sitting. Public records, published by the government that issued them, surfaced the week they appear.How to run the businessFlorida bid-ready checklistThe compliance clerk emails on Tuesday for twelve documents and the bid is due Thursday. Four of them take a week to obtain. Assemble the package before you need it and every tender after that is an afternoon of work.How to run the businessMiami-Dade and Orlando permitsFilter this week's Miami-Dade County and Orlando building permits to your trade and value band, read a permit line the way an estimator does, and make a call that names the permit number.How to run the businessGet on Florida GC bid listsA general contractor bid list is a spreadsheet on one estimator machine, and getting added is a four minute clerical act that happens the moment somebody has a complete folder on you. Here is the folder.How to run the businessFlorida Building Code 9th EditionApplications accepted before the switchover stay under the 8th Edition for the life of the permit, and applications after it do not. That makes the date you walk into the building department a pricing decision on every job that straddles it.

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