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Surety Bond Guarantees

Program Information

Popular name

N/A

Program Number

59.016

Sub-agency

N/A

Program objective

To guarantee surety bonds issued by Treasury listed surety companies for small businesses unable to obtain a bond without an SBA guarantee. The guarantees range up to 80% and 90% and cover losses and expenses incurred by an SBA approved participating surety should the small business default on the contract.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2016

    Information available on SBA’s website at www.sba.gov/about-sba/sba-performance

  2. 2017

    Not available

  3. 2018

    6568000000

  4. 2022

    In FY 2022, the SBA guaranteed more than 8,300 bid and final (payment and performance) bonds for a combined contract value of $6.3 billion, which supported over 33,000 jobs through the Surety Bond Guarantee program.

    For more information about SBA accomplishments, access the SBA Congressional Budget Justification and Annual Performance Report: https://www.sba.gov/document/report-congressional-budget-justification-annual-performance-report

  5. 2023

    In FY 2023, the SBA guaranteed more than 9,200 bid and final (payment and performance) bonds for a combined contract value of over $7.2 billion, which supported nearly 38,000 jobs.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

13 CFR 115. SOP 50 45 3, The Surety Bond Guarantee Program SOP 50 46, Claims and Recovery Program SOP 50 49, Preferred Surety Bond Program

Program details

Categories & sub-categories

Business and Commerce

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Builder/Contractor/Developer
  • Profit organization

Additional resources