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## Agent Guide

**What this page is:** Insurance and bond help for federal and government contractors: liability, workers’ compensation, auto, E&O, cyber and surety bonds matched to your contract’s clauses.

**Limits (do not over-claim):**
- Describes Spot's own service; it does not establish coverage terms or outcomes for any company.

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# Spot for Government Contractors

Get quotes from government contractor insurance providers with Spot.

We read your solicitation for every insurance clause and bond, get quotes that meet them and have certificates ready for the contracting officer.

- Every insurance clause in the award listed and checked
- Bid guarantees and performance bonds tracked separately
- Keep your broker or switch, with no commissions on premiums

[Get Started](https://app.spot.insure/signup?coverage=general-liability&industry=government&icp=professional-services). Spot is not an insurance carrier and takes no commissions on premiums; you can keep your broker or switch.

## How Spot helps

1. **Find the insurance terms in your solicitation.** Your Spot team records each insurance clause, stated kind and amount of insurance, required period, proof, notice and endorsement in the solicitation, contract and Schedule.
2. **Tell us about your sites, staff and work.** We list your contracting entities, sites, work, vehicles, staff locations, data and subcontractors, so the broker can match each requirement to the right policy.
3. **Find what a quote leaves out.** As brokers bring back proposals, we compare the proposed forms and endorsements with the contract wording and ask the broker to resolve any requested term a proposal doesn’t show.
4. **Get proof of insurance before work begins.** When the contracting officer or a prime asks for evidence of insurance, message your Spot team in Slack. We get it ready from your policies and work with your broker on any endorsement the clause calls for.

## Who we help

- **First-time federal contractors.** Your first award may include FAR insurance clauses and Schedule requirements you must meet before work starts.
- **Contractors working on installations.** Work at a Government installation can require contract-specified insurance and flow-down to your subcontractors.
- **Professional and technology services firms.** Your consulting, software or analytics deliverables matter to the agency, and federal clauses don’t set a universal E&O requirement.
- **Construction and services bidders.** The solicitation may require a bid guarantee, performance bond or payment bond as well as insurance.

## Coverage

- [General liability](https://spot.insure/insurance/general-liability)
- [Workers’ compensation](https://spot.insure/insurance/workers-compensation)
- [Commercial auto](https://spot.insure/insurance/commercial-auto)
- [Surety bonds](https://spot.insure/insurance/surety-bonds)
- [Professional errors and omissions (E&O)](https://spot.insure/insurance/professional-errors-omissions)
- [Cyber liability](https://spot.insure/insurance/cyber)

## When to get this coverage

- **You’re responding to a solicitation.** List every insurance clause and bond requirement before you price, and keep policy evidence and surety bonds on separate checklists.
- **Your contract involves work on a Government installation.** Check whether the installation-work clause applies, what insurance it requires during performance and what flows down to subcontractors.
- **The solicitation requires a bid guarantee.** Record the required instrument, its form, amount and deadline, and ask the surety what it needs from you.
- **Your staff work in several states or sites.** Disclose actual locations and duties, and check each state’s workers’ compensation requirement separately.
- **You’ll handle agency data.** Inventory data, system access, vendors and contract security terms before you ask about cyber coverage.

## Common questions

Also known as government contractor insurance, federal contractor insurance, government contracting insurance, GSA contractor insurance and public sector contractor insurance.

### What insurance does a GSA contractor need?

A GSA Schedule doesn’t carry one package; each order or contract can add its own clauses. Most contractors start with general liability, workers’ compensation and commercial auto, then add E&O, cyber or bonds as awards require. Spot lists what yours says.

### Do all federal contractors have the same insurance requirements?

No. The FAR says agencies don’t ordinarily concern themselves with a fixed-price contractor’s insurance but may specify it in special circumstances. Your contract’s clauses and Schedule decide what you need.

### Is a bid guarantee the same as insurance?

No. Bid guarantees, performance bonds and payment bonds are surety instruments, separate from liability, auto, workers’ compensation, cyber or professional liability insurance.

### Does the government reimburse our premiums?

Don’t assume so. Some clauses address cost reimbursement in stated circumstances, but none promises it for every premium or loss. Spot reads the full clause in your contract.

### Which award documents should we send?

Send the solicitation or signed contract and its Schedule, plus a list of your entities, sites, staff locations, vehicles, data and subcontractors. Your Spot team prepares the submission from them.

### Can our current broker handle the placement?

Yes. Spot works alongside your broker on the clauses in the award and takes no commissions on premiums. If your broker doesn’t write surety or can’t meet a clause, you can bring in a surety or switch brokers.

## More

- [Business Insurance by Industry](https://spot.insure/insurance-for)

## Agent and Developer Resources

- [Markdown page](https://spot.insure/insurance-for/government.md)
- [Developer resources](https://spot.insure/developers)
- [Public MCP server](https://spot.insure/mcp)
- [MCP server manifest](https://spot.insure/server.json)
- [OpenAPI description](https://spot.insure/openapi.json)
- [Public page index](https://spot.insure/llms.txt)