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Post by follyville on Aug 5, 2009 0:31:26 GMT -5
Hello everyone,
I need suggestions for bidding approximately 20,000 S.F commercial area. it is a for an Ambulance station. They are about 25 offices mostly carpeted. The task is to vacuum each offices and take trash out. I do not have to clean desk or monitor no dusting what so ever. They are very concerned about the bathrooms and the break room the floor is not currently done well and they are tired of seeing the black smudges on the edge of the base board from previous stripping and waxing that has compounded. I am bidding to turn the place around.
They have 2 male bathrooms one with urinal and 2 female bathrooms and one shower place. They need the bathrooms done thoroughly daily and sanitized once a month and the floor taken cared of at least once a month. The hallway both arm's length wide and about 25-35 feet in length that they need wash(grout floor) at least monthly and swept and mop daily. There is a training room carpeted that they need treated quarterly or as needed. then there is a break room in the fleet area where they service the truck and one bathroom and a dispatch area constantly on the phone.
I want to do a thorough cleaning quote them at $35hr in Arizona it will be me only doing this work I just started the business and I am just placing my bids I will like to get this ambulance as a client they are really not satisfied with the service they have right now. I need help with pricing because when I did the work through today they do not have the sq footage and some part is warehouse, fleet area. They isn't that much floor area just carpet in the offices. They are currently paying three different companies. One for windows the other for carpet and the other for floor and yes Fourth for janitorial daily services. I want to be the one they pay for all the services. PLEASE HELP ME HERE PLEASE
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Post by logan5127 on Aug 5, 2009 16:26:56 GMT -5
Hello everyone, I need suggestions for bidding approximately 20,000 S.F commercial area. it is a for an Ambulance station. They are about 25 offices mostly carpeted. The task is to vacuum each offices and take trash out. I do not have to clean desk or monitor no dusting what so ever. They are very concerned about the bathrooms and the break room the floor is not currently done well and they are tired of seeing the black smudges on the edge of the base board from previous stripping and waxing that has compounded. I am bidding to turn the place around. They have 2 male bathrooms one with urinal and 2 female bathrooms and one shower place. They need the bathrooms done thoroughly daily and sanitized once a month and the floor taken cared of at least once a month. The hallway both arm's length wide and about 25-35 feet in length that they need wash(grout floor) at least monthly and swept and mop daily. There is a training room carpeted that they need treated quarterly or as needed. then there is a break room in the fleet area where they service the truck and one bathroom and a dispatch area constantly on the phone. I want to do a thorough cleaning quote them at $35hr in Arizona it will be me only doing this work I just started the business and I am just placing my bids I will like to get this ambulance as a client they are really not satisfied with the service they have right now. I need help with pricing because when I did the work through today they do not have the sq footage and some part is warehouse, fleet area. They isn't that much floor area just carpet in the offices. They are currently paying three different companies. One for windows the other for carpet and the other for floor and yes Fourth for janitorial daily services. I want to be the one they pay for all the services. PLEASE HELP ME HERE PLEASE Can you do all the services they require? It sounds like a good opportunity but it can also tie you down . You would be working the business full time, without any time to build the business. Perhaps that is what you want. The bad thing about a big contract is that if you do loose them it hurts. If that is all your doing , it can put you right out of business. I hope that you are planning on hiring employees soon. As far as the bid goes; I would personally would separate the prices. One bid for carpet cleaning , one for ceramic tile and grout cleaning, one for windows and one for the janitorial. The janitorial would be the only one I would bid by the hour. Let them know that if they go with all four services that you will give them a discount. It does not have to be a big discount but enough to seal the deal. We use to charge $22 to $25 an hour for janitorial; (IN TENN.) But due to the economy and low bids we have came down to around $15 per hour. That said, we also had to decrease our hourly employee pay from $12 an hour to $8.50 an hour. The employees agree it is better to work 40 hours at lower pay then to work just a few hours at $12 an hour. It was their idea when we started loosing work. Good luck with the bid. |
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Post by follyville on Aug 6, 2009 10:57:26 GMT -5
Thank you,
Yes, I can perform all the service they are requesting. Their beef is the bathrooms and the vinyl tile looks dull. They point out clear that I do not have to dust the tables just the conference room. I am in Tucson, AZ for the hourly rate for the janitorial service I did bid it at $30 per hr. They want an initial thorough cleaning which I am bidding at $45 per hr for (3) 8hr days. I plan to clean the dusty leg of the chairs it was looking bad when I did the work through and also do the floor there isn't much striping and waxing of the vinyl tile. The carpet they want done quarterly and it was recently done so I am good on that area. It is an ambulance facility, there is lots of bodily fluid stuff going on.
I bid in all the carpet work and floor care in the bid and the floor will be taken cared of monthly strip and waxed and grout tile flow will be washed every week or daily if needed. I felt since I will be doing detail most of the time I charge hourly. I bid it 8hrs a day to care for the facility 6pm till 2am. I have one other 83,000 S.F. corporate office I have a bid on and I do have a candidate I can hire on to work along side with me. Right now it is just me alone, but I am looking to hire soon. I am going to start interviewing so I can at least have applicant in my data base so it make the hiring process a little smooth. When I went to turn in the bid they wanted to sit and talk it over with me, but I had an appointment to be at. Do you think I should have sat there and just talk it over?
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Post by logan5127 on Aug 7, 2009 8:38:09 GMT -5
Thank you, I did bid it at $30 per hr. They want an initial thorough cleaning which I am bidding at $45 per hr for (3) 8hr days. When I went to turn in the bid they wanted to sit and talk it over with me, but I had an appointment to be at. Do you think I should have sat there and just talk it over? The initial clean should take a lot longer than the regular cleaning. I am not sure why you are charging more per hour. Are you worth more on the initial clean per hour. A lot of services charge more for initial clean but it is because it takes longer and they are bidding by the job and not by the hour. It would cost them a lot more already because of the time factor. The question about staying and talking is that it would depend on a couple of things. One is how important was the meeting that you had to go to? Could you have called your appointment and told them you would be late? Do you already have the bid on this contract and they just wanted to discuss a few things or is the bid still open and they wanted to negotiate with you? Ever action gets a reaction. A few minutes of talking could make a difference. |
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Post by follyville on Aug 14, 2009 14:08:25 GMT -5
Thank you,
Well, we never got the time to sit and talk about the bid, but we will on Tuesday the 18th. I am feeling strong and confident that they will offer to me and then negotiate.
Thank you again.
Taofik
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