Mobilization Funding
Capital to get a new award off the ground before you bill a dollar.
Let's size your mobilization funding.
Two questions to start. No obligation, no credit pull.
How it works
Every new contract has a startup cost before performance even begins: hiring and relocating staff, purchasing equipment and supplies, securing insurance and bonding, and travel to stand up a new site. Mobilization funding puts capital in your hands before your first invoice, so a win doesn't strain cash flow before it starts paying off. We structure the advance around your specific mobilization budget and the award's timeline.
Mobilization is the point where a contract is most likely to go wrong financially. The award is signed, the period of performance has started, and every cost is outbound, but nothing is billable yet, and the first payment may be sixty days past the first invoice. Contractors who win a transformational award and then cannot fund its startup are a common story.
Funding at this stage is sized to a mobilization budget rather than a receivable, because there is not yet a receivable to lend against. That makes the underwriting a question about the award, the scope of work, and the credibility of your startup plan. That is why it is worth having the conversation before the award is signed, not after.
How the facility is structured.
Access capital before you've billed a single invoice on the new award.
Equipment, supplies, travel, staffing, and site setup are all eligible uses.
Structured around your actual mobilization schedule and milestones.
Rolls into a contract line of credit or payroll funding once performance begins.
Mobilization Funding questions, answered.
What is the difference between mobilization funding and purchase order financing?
Mobilization funding covers the broad cost of standing up performance on an award: staffing, travel, insurance, site setup, equipment. Purchase order financing pays suppliers directly for goods against a specific confirmed order. Contractors delivering products tend to need the second; contractors delivering services tend to need the first.
Can I get mobilization funding before the contract is awarded?
Funding is structured around an actual award, so it is released once the contract is in hand. It is worth opening the conversation while you are still bidding, though, so the facility is ready when the award lands rather than starting from zero.
What happens once I start invoicing?
Mobilization funding is typically designed to transition into an ongoing facility, either a contract line of credit or payroll funding, once performance begins and receivables start to build.
Ready to fund your contract?
No obligation, talk to a govcon financing specialist, not a call center. We'll structure capital around your award.