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Title: tendering
Post by: Suehuitt on May 16, 2007, 06:25:53 pm

hi Guys I have been asked to tender for a clean, I am meeting they guy next week, am I best to price by the hour or do I charge by sqft  any help would be gladly appreciated, do I go on the basis that 12ft sq will be about 30 mins work?

Title: Re: tendering
Post by: martin19842 on May 16, 2007, 06:46:10 pm

 hi there

12 sq ft is NOT 30 mins work.

is it a build clean tender ?? or an office clean tender  ??

regards

martin

Title: Re: tendering
Post by: Suehuitt on May 16, 2007, 07:03:14 pm

its an office clean martin and thank you for your response so quickly

Title: Re: tendering
Post by: lea_kay on May 16, 2007, 07:59:29 pm

office cleans general work on a per sq ft basis simple equation is between 160-180sq ft per person per hour.
Hope this helps

Title: Re: tendering
Post by: Suehuitt on May 16, 2007, 08:42:44 pm

thanks for the quick reply I think that should help me.
So for example if the area is 1000sqft what would be the best way of converting it to hourly rate

Title: Re: tendering
Post by: lea_kay on May 16, 2007, 09:24:37 pm

divide the total sq ft by the sq ft average tells you around 6.25hrs .
convert that into staff and its around 2 staff 3 hrs/day or 6 staff 1hr/day  approximatley!
hope you understand this i am not very good at explaining if you have any problems drop me a line on info@lk-hygiene.co.uk
cheers

Title: Re: tendering
Post by: Suehuitt on May 16, 2007, 09:31:57 pm

hi i have emailed you as i still cant get my head around it, give me any maths but sqft?

Title: Re: tendering
Post by: Dust Knights on May 17, 2007, 12:02:50 am

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office cleans general work on a per sq ft basis simple equation is between 160-180sq ft per person per hour.

Your standards must be incredibly high!  :o

Try 2000 - 2500 square feet per hour and you're getting closer.

Therefore an office building of 10,000 square feet would take between 4 and 5 man hours.

Chris

Title: Re: tendering
Post by: lea_kay on May 17, 2007, 01:01:18 am

sorry sue he is right i forgot the zero it should read 1600-1800 sq ft per hour
thanks for noticing that however i have emailed you sue with some proper calculations. :o

Title: Re: tendering
Post by: martin19842 on May 17, 2007, 06:15:53 pm

hi there

yes productivity ratios vary

some will price 1000-1300 sq ft per hr

whilst the big boys, ie airports etc will be looking for 2000-3000 sq ft per hour.

it all depends on the density of the offices as well ie furniture.

regards

martin

Title: Re: tendering
Post by: Suehuitt on May 17, 2007, 10:41:46 pm

Thanks  all for the information, I will be putting in the tender early next week and will let you know the outcome