How To Bid 20k Sqft Of Office Cleaning

Using bidding calculators can help you put together cleaning bids for potential customers

This commodity was contributed by Stacie and Joe Gorse, members of TheJanitorialStore.com and owners of Omni Enterprises of Creedmore, NC.

Updated past Steve Hanson, co-founder of thejanitorialstore.com and MyHouseCleaningBiz.com

To approximate a bid price for an role space yous need to know a couple of numbers. Beginning yous demand to know the cleanable square footage of the facility. Second you need to know the time to clean and tertiary your price per hour.

Getting the cleanable square footage is easy, simply measure the space with a measuring bike. Length x width = square footage. Case: 25 feet x 15 feet = 375 square anxiety.
The time to clean is based on your production charge per unit (how many square feet yous tin can clean in one hour). 25,000 square feet divided by half dozen hour = 4,166.66 foursquare anxiety per 60 minutes.
Your cost per hr is based on marketplace inquiry. When you know what your competitors are charging per hour for general cleaning, go in the middle range.

Once you know those numbers you can use the "behest calculators" to know if you will make a profit on the account.

In that location are basic guidelines for productivity. These are only "rough" estimates, but it'southward essentially, how much space can yous clean in an hour. If you're cleaning a 6000 square pes area and it takes y'all 3 hours to get done, your Productivity is 2000 anxiety per hour which is low productivity. If it takes you i.five hours to clean that 6000 foot surface area, your productivity is 4000 feet/hour which is loftier productivity. The difference is usually determined past what needs to be washed. For example, one 6000 square pes function might be all carpeted with a little calorie-free dusting and one bathroom. That would exist much easier than say, a 6000 foot surface area divided into several rooms with tile floors and 6 divide bathroom stalls to clean and a carpeted lobby with a mirrored elevator. The "Productivity" number is simply the amount of space you can clean per hr. In the more elaborate office, it takes longer to clean the same amount of infinite.

1500-2000: Low Productivity: High difficulty, loftier % of tile floors, industrial, high traffic areas.

2000-3000: Moderate Productivity: Standard account, moderate difficulty, lower frequency per week.

3000-4000: Medium Productivity: Low difficulty, college frequency per week.

4000+: High Productivity: this is an easy account that y'all can by and large clean in nether an hour.

Fourth dimension = Area Divided by Productivity.

This is the actual amount of time it takes to provide service once. If you don't know how much time it will take, employ the full general descriptions equally a guideline... more hard accounts accept longer to make clean and so more difficult accounts have a lower productivity number.

Frequency = How many days in one week service is provided.

Charge per unit = Your hourly rate.

This is some other category that varies greatly past region and too by the number of services per calendar week. Typically, to be competitive, the hourly rate goes down equally the frequency increases. For example, if you clean in one case a week, you tin charge $25 per 60 minutes. Only if you clean 5 days a week, in lodge to win the bid, yous might need to bid a much lower hourly rate (closer to $fourteen-sixteen per hour).

Some general guidelines to follow for this adding formula are:

1x per week: $25/60 minutes
2x per week: $xx-22/hr
3x per week: $18-19/hr
4x per calendar week: $16-xviii/hr
5x per week: $xiv-sixteen/60 minutes

Of class this number varies depending on where you are in the country, but it's a condom bet to offset with, which will keep yous competitive and withal profitable.

To calculate your bid price:

Fourth dimension x Charge per unit 10 Frequency x 4.3 (you multiply by 4.3 because this is the number of weeks in a calendar month).

Here'southward an case using this formula:

You lot are bidding on an office. Information technology'south 6000 square feet, all carpeted with 1 bathroom. They take out their own trash and recyclables and have a small kitchenette with a microwave and dorm size fridge to wipe downward. They want service three days a week.

To bid this, y'all would figure it would probably fall into the 3000 range for productivity because of the frequency. So, 6000 divided by 3000 = 2. Using this guide, it would accept nearly 2 hours to clean. Because it's iii times a calendar week, y'all would probably charge about $19 per hour.

So, Time ten Rate 10 Frequency x iv.3 = Your bid 2 10 19 x 3 x four.iii = $490

Potentially, this could piece of work with just nearly any blazon of account because in gild to give them a good bid, you need to figure out how long it will take to clean. In one case you have that number nailed down, bidding is actually non that difficult.

Time is money, after all.