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The Australian journal of commercial cleaning
Cleaning ContractorsTenders, labour, chemicals, compliance and the contract book — written for people who run the job.
How Australian cleaning contractors read a specification, price a risk, and decide whether a tender is worth the paper.
Tender portals, government panels, service level agreements and the unglamorous work of walking away from a contract that will eat the business.
Walking away is a commercial decision, not a tantrum. Red-flag specifications, unpaid variations, unsafe work and a price that cannot pay the Award are all reasons to stop — at bid stage, at renewal, or with proper notice mid-term.
18 June 2025
An SLA is not a motivational poster. It is the clause that turns a specification into inspections, rectification windows and, sometimes, money. The usable ones measure cleaning, not weather or occupant behaviour.
21 May 2025
Government cleaning tenders are won by answering the published criteria in the published order, with evidence a panel can score. Weighted criteria, local content, modern slavery, WHS and insurance are not appendices — they are the bid.
16 April 2025
A cleaning specification is a facility manager’s attempt to buy a defensible result, usually written in the language of the last contract. Learn to separate frequencies from outcomes, soil from area, and the work you will be paid for from the work you will be blamed for.
4 March 2025
Winning a cleaning tender is less about a cheap square-metre rate than about deciding which documents deserve a response, inspecting the building properly, and writing a method an evaluation panel can score.
11 February 2025