Commercial Cleaning Blog

If you’re reading this, chances are something’s not sitting right with you about your current commercial cleaning company. Maybe your cleaner turns up, but the job still feels half done. Maybe things keep getting missed. Or maybe you've got that quiet frustration—the bins are empty, the floors are vacuumed, but somehow the place still doesn't feel clean. You're not imagining it.

Look, we all fall into this trap, right? You sign up with a vendor (in your case a commercial cleaning company), and you just keep going. You stick with them year after year; not because everything’s perfect, but because, well… it’s easier to just leave it. You don’t really think about it.

I want to talk to you today about RFQs for commercial cleaning. Now look, before we get into it, I need to be honest with you. I’m probably going to upset a few people here. Procurement teams, facilities managers, or whoever’s usually responsible for pulling these things together within your organisation... this might ruffle a few feathers. But what I'm about to share with you all needs to be said.

Now, if you’re anything like me, you’d be more than a little suspicious reading this article. On the one hand, yes, this is information you need. Although commercial cleaners all have their own ways of pricing their services (us included), you don't want to go into a conversation with a potential commercial cleaner about budget completely blind.

You want your workspaces and facilities to be clean. But who defines what “clean” is for your organisation? I ask because how you define “clean” may not be the same as someone else. You might be held to rigorous compliance standards that others are not, based on your industry, or you simply may be interested in providing a safe and sanitary environment for your employees.

Shared spaces get dirty really fast. After all, think of all the people who pass through or use these areas every day…and what they might leave behind. Dirt and mud stains on the floor, marks on the walls, fingerprints on handrails and lift buttons, dust on the stairs, just to name a few!