I believe you are bidding on a project from a state agency. Some States requires (by law) performance bond for construction work. You may be able to get reimbursement of the true cost of the performance bond from the buyer. You can suggest to use LOC for the equipment portion if there is any and performance bond to cover the field work. Interest rate of LOC is much lower than that of the performance bond.
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