Hi, I am a Plumbing Subcontractor in San Jose, CA. We have a public project with a local municipality here and working through a GC. Our contract with the GC is based on T & M. We have worked almost 100% and gotten paid about 50%. We did not file a preliminary notice on this project but filed a stop notice just recently. We think the way to go is to file a bond claim at this time since the GC is not paying us. Our T & M Billings is about $1.8M at the moment. Can you help us out, please? Is there any lawyers available who are familira with CA public constrution laws?
The Stop Payment Notice and Payment Bond claims are complementary remedies so you should consider pursuing both at the same time. The lack of a preliminary notice may not be an issue due to the nature of this project.