Underbidding the price, only to cheap out on labor in the long run

Many commercial cleaning bid a very lower price for commercial cleaning jobs. Particularly for larger facilities, replacing a poor quality service often takes a substantial amount of time – and requires administrative attention. This means that larger contracts aren’t going to easily get rid of a sloppy provider, and might hang on to them for several months to nearly a year past the initial issue. To take advantage of this, many cleaning service vendors will bid a project very low – unreasonably low- so low that it cannot even cover the labor cost to properly service the facility, nonetheless supplies, quality control and training oversight, and other key elements. This is strategic – they hope to get the initial bid, and win the contract, and initiate the service. As time goes on, they will dial back on effort – reducing labor hours, neglecting equipment and materials, until gradually, the service becomes profitable to them, at their low price, by operating well below the bare minimum.

Suddenly your building needs serious deep cleaning services

After things go downhill, the client may attempt to resolve the issue with the cleaning service vendor. The vendor might superficially agree to remedy the solutions– at first– but take no measurable action to rectify it. As time goes on, this dispute will escalate, and the vendor often disputes whether the task in question was even in the scope of work. This is where ‘cleaning’ becomes reduced and reduced to merely a hypothetical notion. The vendor might remove trash and change trash can liners, sweep a floor but skip corners, neglect to mop, neglect toilets, and misuse products causing bacteria to spread.

The hidden cost of “cheap” cleaning

Over time, this poor care of a facility causes very substantial problems; now this cheap cleaning contract is actually going to cost the client a huge deep cleaning cost. Hardened grime and build up in the corners of hallways and flooring is not an easy problem to solve. Calcium and hard water build up on fixtures and faucets in restrooms and sinks, stained tile and grout, and filthy restrooms require a higher caliber of professional care to resolve.