Confirm the general liability insurance and surety bond amounts an irrigation contracting business must carry before bidding work in a specific state, rather than relying on generic national aggregator figures.

Steps

1. Identify the specific state (and, if applicable, municipality) where the work will be performed, since insurance/bonding requirements are set state-by-state and sometimes locally, with no single national schedule.
2. Go directly to that state's contractor licensing board or examining board site to find the current bond amount and any insurance minimums tied to licensure (e.g., North Carolina's $10,000 surety bond for licensed irrigation contractors, or Illinois's $20,000 bond for licensed plumbing/irrigation contractors administered by the Illinois Dept. of Public Health).
3. Separately confirm any general liability insurance minimum the state or a specific project/RFP requires, since bonding and insurance are distinct requirements that can both apply.
4. Cross-check figures found on third-party insurance-broker or bond-seller marketing sites against the actual state statute or licensing board page before quoting a client, since aggregator sites can be outdated or imprecise.
5. Document the confirmed bond/insurance requirement per state if the contractor operates across multiple states, since amounts and structures (flat bond vs. volume-scaled bond) differ.