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It was during part of my tenure at Gulf Insurance, I'm guessing 1996-1999. As Mr. Williams said, it was run by the avuncular Art Jackson.

It was not very well-known even back when I was involved. It had very few sureties and was surprisingly informal compared to the SBA.

The DOT used to have a surety guarantee program similar to the SBA for contractors working on transportation-related projects. Just reading this quickly, I'm guessing it's related to something like that.