Retainage
Retainage Financing
Money earned and held, capped at 10% under FAR 52.232-5(e). How to reach $800K sitting across four projects without waiting for closeout.
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You won it. Fund it. Perform.
A federal award is a receivable from the most creditworthy customer on earth. A contractor turning down work for lack of mobilization capital has a lender reading the wrong document.
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Guides
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Assignment of Claims
Assignment of Claims: A Contractor's Step-by-Step Guide
How to pledge a federal receivable, clause by clause. The Act, FAR Subpart 32.8, the notice requirements, and the four places the filing goes wrong.
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Mobilization
Mobilization Funding
The capital between the award and the first payment. What a $2M mobilization on a $10M award costs to fund, and how fast.
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Retainage
Retainage Financing
Money earned and held, capped at 10% under FAR 52.232-5(e). How to reach $800K sitting across four projects without waiting for closeout.
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Articles
See All →What a structure costs against a real contract, and where it fails.
faq
Financing a federal contract, answered
The questions contractors ask before they pledge a federal receivable. The Act, the FAR subpart, the notice, and the places it goes wrong.
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comparison
Four ways to finance a federal award, and what each costs on the same $10M contract
Invoice factoring, asset-based lending, contract financing, and a bank line, assessed against one contract on five criteria. The criteria are published before the assessment. No structure wins, because a structure fits a configuration and the rest don't.
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Blog
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Protest Periods and Payment Delays
Carrying the team through a start date you don't control.
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Funded backlog and unfunded backlog. The gap between the two numbers is the whole problem, and every issue closes a piece of it: one mechanism, one figure, one thing to do this fortnight.
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Sanctorum Capital advances against work already performed
Retainage and progress payments financed on performance rather than on closeout. Money earned and held is a receivable, and it finances like one.
See how Sanctorum finances federal contracts