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Bidding and prequalification in Texas

Getting invited is a paperwork problem. These guides cover where Texas public bids are posted, what a general contractor’s prequalification packet actually asks for, and the checklist that has every piece of it ready before anybody asks.

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How to run the businessFind Texas construction bidsTexas posts public work across the ESBD, TxDOT lettings, school district portals, city and county pages, and university systems, each with its own login. This page maps all of it, then covers the three things that decide whether you can bid: CMBL registration, Chapter 2253 bonding, and free HUB certification.How to run the businessTexas bid ready checklistTwelve documents stand between you and a vendor number at a Texas general contractor, and five of them cost nothing. Certificate of Formation, EIN, W-9, certificate of account status, ACORD 25 endorsements, the comp answer, city registration, bonding capacity and HUB, each with who issues it and how long it takes.How to run the businessGet on Texas GC bid listsTexas issues no GC licence, so the bid list is the gate. Here is what a Texas prequal packet asks for, from the Comptroller certificate of account status to the EMR box a non-subscriber cannot fill, plus which estimator to call and when. Houston and DFW are two different lists.

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