Almost nobody in Snellville runs a formal procurement process, and honestly, most buildings here do not need one. What they need is a way to read two proposals sitting side by side without a purchasing department to help. That is fixable in about fifteen minutes. The commercial cleaning cost Snellville owners are trying to compare almost never lines up between vendors, because each one made different assumptions and none of them wrote those assumptions on the first page. Normalize three things in order and the two pages become directly comparable, whatever they looked like when they arrived.

Line the two pages up before you read either one

Put them next to each other and find four items on each: cleanable area, visits per week, restroom fixture count, and who provides supplies.

If any of the four is missing from a proposal, that is your first question. It is also, quite often, the entire explanation for the difference between them.

Normalizing commercial cleaning cost Snellville proposals in order

Frequency first. If one vendor quoted five visits a week and the other quoted three, nothing else on the page can be compared until you know that.

Scope second: task by task, what is included and how often. Supplies third: consumables in or out. Work in that order and the pages resolve quickly.

Then look at the parts that are not on either page

Who supervises, and how often do they inspect. Who is assigned to your building, and how often does that change. What happens when something is missed.

ISSA industry resources covers account management practices for good reason. The scope describes the work, but supervision is what determines whether the work described actually happens in month seven.

Our own position, said once. Cleaning is usually sold on a rate per square foot and staffed by whoever was lowest that month, which is why standards drift. We scope from a walkthrough on your real hours and send back the crew that learned the building.

Most commercial cleaning gets sold on price per square foot, then quietly handed to whoever was cheapest and free that night. That’s why quality slides after month two — the scope was never real to begin with. We build yours from an actual walkthrough of your actual building, on your actual hours. Then we send the same crew who learned it. Boring? Completely. It’s also the only thing that makes month five look like month one.

DBS Cleaning Services Group

Low competition cuts both ways

There are fewer vendors chasing work along Scenic Highway and US-78 than in the Perimeter, which means less pressure and sometimes less attention on your account.

So set the standard yourself. Buildings near The Grove at Towne Center and the Towne Green that write a clear scope and inspect against it get better service than the market average, every time.

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