IME provider bonds.
From $100.
Independent flooring installers in the Installation Made Easy, Inc. (IME) network post this surety bond running to IME as obligee, whether their agreement uses the vendor-tier term Provider or Affiliate. Your vendor agreement sets the amount. Premium is 1% of the bond amount, $100 minimum.
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A vendor bond like this one is ordinary commercial surety — no committee, no financial package at a routine amount. Here is the whole thing:
Apply online
Your entity type and FEIN (or your name and SSN if you apply as an individual), owner details, and the bond amount your Provider agreement specifies. The form closes with a credit consent that authorizes a soft inquiry only.
Issued the moment you pay
Vendor bonds at routine amounts approve on the spot, and the executed bond generates as soon as payment clears. The consent authorizes a soft credit pull only — a soft inquiry that never affects your score. A large penal sum can draw a short review before the bond releases.
Send it to IME
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to send to Installation Made Easy, Inc. so your network placements can start or continue uninterrupted. Wet-ink originals mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the IME Provider bond actually guarantees
Installation Made Easy, Inc. (IME) does not employ its own installation crews — it places flooring installation jobs with a nationwide network of independent contractors who sign on as vendors. IME uses both Provider and Affiliate as vendor-tier names across its network agreements; publicly available IME vendor materials do not spell out a functional difference between the two, so read your own agreement for which term applies to you and what it covers. Either way, IME conditions network participation on posting this bond.
The bond is the performance half of that arrangement: it protects IME and the customer whose floor gets installed. If a Provider’s work falls short of IME’s or the customer’s standards, IME can claim against the bond for the resulting costs, losses, or damages. It is the usual three-party arrangement — you (the principal), the surety carrier, and IME as the obligee — and it is not insurance for you: if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety.
Because no statute requires this bond, IME — not a legislature — sets the penal sum. Bond amounts on this program generally run from a few thousand dollars up to $100,000, sized to the volume and scope of installation work a Provider takes on. Enter the amount your vendor agreement specifies; we price it at 1% of that figure, $100 minimum — the application includes a soft-pull credit consent only, never a hard inquiry.
You need this bond if you are
One application, issued the moment you pay.
These are the actual issuing fields — entity type and FEIN (or your name and SSN if you apply as an individual), owner details, and the bond amount your Provider agreement specifies. The form closes with a consent that authorizes a soft credit inquiry only.
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Get bonded, keep the placements coming.
From $100, priced at 1% of the bond amount. Enter the amount your agreement specifies and send the executed bond to IME the same day. Free until issued.