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UK General Cleaning Forum => General Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: cleanimperial on October 05, 2010, 01:57:01 pm

Title: Supply Services for schools.
Post by: cleanimperial on October 05, 2010, 01:57:01 pm

Hi

Had a call today from a company called Supply Services for schools.
Basically they put you on there web site and any school or college looking for a cleaning contractor
Looks on there website. Its £150 for the year and that covers the hole of London. They said there would only be 10 contractors for this area.

Sounds to good to be true to me. What do you think. Anyone had dealing with them.

Thanks

Fred.

Title: Re: Supply Services for schools.
Post by: Pristine Clean on October 05, 2010, 02:14:04 pm

We dont deal with them. So cannot recommend them. However we do work for schools and you dont need to be on there to get work for schools.


Dave

Title: Re: Supply Services for schools.
Post by: BDCS on October 05, 2010, 06:51:45 pm

Had a similar phone call the other day to go on a suppliers list for nursing homes and according to the guy the homes could only use this list  ::) ::)

They wanted £150 for the year  :o said no of course but he still rang back the next day to see if we had changed our minds!!

Title: Re: Supply Services for schools.
Post by: gordonswindows on October 05, 2010, 07:13:47 pm

Give me £150 and I will put you on a list that you will never get any work from

And then next year if you pay me £300 I will put you on the preferred suppliers  list

Title: Re: Supply Services for schools.
Post by: Blast Away on October 05, 2010, 07:39:18 pm

I get calls like this all the time.

I just put them in their place and say things like ''Oh so how come I've already done work at such-a-place then without going through the likes of you first?''

Best one was actually nursing homes and I asked can they name some in the area in which I'd be of service to. He put the phone down when I cut him short to one he mentioned. I told him I'd just cleaned the paving there 2 weeks previous, to which we actually had.

Title: Re: Supply Services for schools.
Post by: martin19842 on October 05, 2010, 08:21:08 pm

hi there

most school cleaning work goes through an ojec tender process, not on a listing as you have described.

and £150 can get you a lot more of higher profit work than school contracts.

good luck with it though.

regards

martin

Title: Re: Supply Services for schools.
Post by: cleanimperial on October 05, 2010, 08:32:20 pm

Thanks for your reply’s.

Thought it sounded to good to be true.


Fred