You're a small, 非常好的，分包商努力保持盈利并在这种艰难的建筑经济中获得足够的工作。您正在从事联邦政府工作，并为具有良好参考的GC工作。You didn't get a copy of their bonds from the GC because you didn't want to offend your new client.

这项工作进展顺利，但是您发现挖掘机没有按时获得报酬。然后，经过数周的投诉和GC的借口，您必须提出付款保证金索赔。

当您向GC索取其债券的副本时，您会遇到问题。约翰·多伊（John Doe）是谁，为什么他是邦德公司？

然后，您发现GC在另一个工作上存在付款问题，他们的债券公司将其切断了。他们必须从个人担保人那里获得纽带。

Federal project contracting officers are allowed to take individual surety. They are considered riskier than the corporate sureties that are reviewed and ranked by the Department of the Treasury. Instead of the Treasury qualification process, the contracting officer will receive valid assets to support the bond and hold such assets in escrow to pay subs' claims. If assets are insufficient or worthless, subcontractors, suppliers and taxpayers get burned.

全国担保债券生产者协会， www.nasbp.org ，以及许多其他建筑和担保组织，正在试图解决此问题。它发生的频率比任何人的期望要多得多，并且可能破坏建筑业务，尤其是小型企业。此外，所有运营的承包商都发现很难与规则破坏者竞争。

A common sense solution, H.R. 3534,http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.php passed by a voice vote in the U.S. House of Representatives and has been in the U.S. Senate since May 15. Mark McCallum, NASBP's chief executive, says the bill is still in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and that NASBP is encouraging the Committee Chair to move it to markup. If not, the bill may be dead for this session.

Mark also says that some senators have questioned the importance of fixing this problem, despite the NASBP presenting them with egregious case examples where worthless individual surety bonds cost the government and subcontractors millions of dollars.

Mark reminds us to write to Senator Lieberman at http://www.lieberman.senate.gov/index.cfm/contact/email-me-about-an-issue 和柯林斯参议员在 http://www.collins.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email in support of HR 3534, for a better chance they may move it forward.

当众议院通过H.R. 3534时，共同发起人的代表米克·穆尔瓦尼（R-SC）表示为国会记录， “I rise today to bring to light the fact that we are actually doing something on a bipartisan basis to help the country. I thank my colleagues from across the aisle for actually coming together today to try to do something to help the nation advance 。”

If you want to help, too, write to the the Senate and your U.S. senator and help make sure everyone gets paid and sleeps better at night!