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In Construction Cleaning, the cleaning company is required to hold the same insurances as other vendors on the construction site. Most commonly to contract for the final clean scope you need,pp
$1 million in General Liability
$ 1 million Workers Compensation
BUT, you can bid projects without having this insurance in place (roughly $2,500 annual), then once you are awarded the final clean contract, you
have your insurance agent put the policy in place. Don’t forget worker’s compensation is
usually a 1 time annual payment. Your insurance certificate should have limits equal to ours, CCP needs these limits to Be Qualified With General Contractors, not to contract, but just to receive invitations to bids. Bonding is irrelevant in post construction cleaning. The GC will rarely ask for a cleaning company to purchase a bond. (Bidding or Performance) This is not janitorial services and you are not working for a property management company (Jones Lang LaSalle)
What does the final clean scope include?
Final cleaning or general cleanup during construction is our service.
During construction cleaning is provided laborers with no equipment, cleaning company charges GC Time & Material and final cleanup is a full service and is normally charged per contract amount.
Our post construction interior building cleaning consists of the following:
- Removal of “Construction” trash and debris left on floors, walls and all items horizontal and vertical
- Dusting walls, baseboards, fixtures, and furnishings-cabinets counters, shelving
- Vacuum clean/dust display cases inside and outside
- Shine all stainless steel
- Restrooms
- Window cleaning
- Carpet care
- Ceramic Tile/Slate Cleaning
- VCT Tile Clean & Seal
Is a site visit required for a cleaning company to price a construction cleaning job?
No, a site visit is not necessary, but highly recommended by the project manager. It is better for everybody if you make a site visit before we finalize and submit a proposal to the general contractor. The site visit allows you to see the conditions of the project, and alter your price as needed; maybe the building is already neat, and your proposal price can be lower. The site visit allows you to meet the superintendent face to face, which increases the chance of being awarded.
While low price is usually determinates the contract award, people also work with companies they like and personally know.
What is PPE?
Personal Protective Equipment
The most common protective items required is: Hard hat, Reflective vest, Steel toe shoes,
https://www.osha.gov/Publications/construction_ppe.html
On a construction site you have to Protect Yourself, OSHA has created the standardized protection requirements that most general contractors follow.
Does a construction cleaning company need a dumpster
A dumpster is usually delivered to a construction site at the beginning of a project. The construction company rents the dumpster for all trades to throw trash away. A cleaning company never rents or needs to own a dumpster. At times a cleaning company will not use the dumpster much unless you are completing the rough clean, which involves throwing away larger debris like pieces of drywall.
Does a construction cleaning company need a contractor’s License to perform a post construction cleanup?
No, a cleaning company does not have a license to perform cleaning services on a construction site. A license is needed for other trades on a construction site, example: electrician or heating and cooling company. On prevailing wage projects, cleaning companies are classified as General Labor. There is no state certification license required for janitorial or cleaning services. A cleaning company must be insured, hold workers compensation, and have a license to do business.
What if a cleaning company is asked to give a quote for a project, but the project name is not known
Thank you, we’d love to give a quote for the final scope. What is the exact name of the project for our records?
For us to accurately price the final cleanup, we’d prefer to schedule a site visit for the most competitive final clean scope bid. When your interior finished are just about finished would be ideal. Can we visit with your superintendent, can you share the name and cell of your super on site?
What is the normal amount of a manpower a cleaning company needs to complete a post construction cleanup?
4 laborers working 8 hours per day is the normal manpower needed to complete a job. This number of laborers can vary based on the construction schedule, we have seen 1 laborer required for 2 hours per day for 1 week and 25 laborers needed for 10 hrs. per day for 1 week long.
What should a cleaning company take to a post construction cleaning scope/ price confirmation site visit appointment?
You are going to a construction site, you want to look like the rest of the crews on the job site. Wear hard toe boots, reflective vest, and hard hat. Bring a notepad for writing notes, a square footage measurer is a bonus but not required because you can sit with the super on site and look at the big architectural drawings they are constructing the building from.
The project is 40% complete, how am I supposed to give a price for something that I don’t know how it will look when complete?
You can walk a bare building site with superintendent and get a visual and ideas on phasing schedules or amount of days expected for cleaning company to be on site. Or you can view the architectural drawings, which is how the building will look (clean) when complete, but on paper! We can stay in contact with the super and wait until the job site is closer to completion (paint going on walls, flooring installed, cabinets installed). The only problem is, if you went to the site, someone else may go to the site and submit a competitive proposal amount and the project manager can buy the cleanup.
What is Construction Clean Partners winning rate?
We win 40% of the jobs we submit a proposal for. We only submit proposals for jobs that are in progress.
Does the cleaning company or Construction Clean Partners submit the proposal to the project manager of construction company?
The cleaning partner can submit own proposal to project manager and copy @constructioncleanpartners.com. Project manager will approve proposals and issue change orders. Cleaning partner can submit change orders on their own form (no need to copy CCP) or email CCP change order amount and CCP can submit for cleaning partner, copying cleaning partner on all outbound emails.
CCP will submit the proposal to the pm for our cleaning partner, we copy cleaning partner email on all outbound emails. Proposal is created in cleaning company name.
How does CCP price construction cleaning jobs?
CCP will estimate the cleaning value based on the type of construction project and square footage of the floor plans, .25 cents per square foot and $125 per room if the building is an apartment or hotel. If we have a square foot, we rather use square footage to price over price per room to estimate.
We share our estimated contract value in all project detail notifications. You may need to adjust your bid price after making a site visit and seeing the conditions first hand. The cleaning company can change its estimated price without approval from CCP.
How does CCP know it is time for a site visit?
CCP is told from project manager which superintendent our cleaning partner should schedule and walk the job site with to fully confirm scope, site conditions, cleaning schedule, and pricing. We then confirm from site contact or pm that paint or flooring is installed.
Who awards the cleaning contract when a cleaning company partners with CCP?
The General Contractor awards the final cleaning contract. Once your bid is accepted and the project is awarded act, you’ll need to submit the standard documents like insurance, certified payroll, and invoicing directly to the general contractor.
How many proposals will CCP submit for each job?
CCP will only send 1 cleaning partner to the job site to confirm scope and pricing. We will only submit 1 proposal for each job. It is possible that a cleaning partner makes a site visit, then determines that the scope is too difficult and then declines the job. We will then send our 2nd best cleaning partner to the job site and submit a proposal.
How many calls does CCP make to win a construction clean contract?
We rarely make outbound calls to contractors, we do send on average 7 emails to a company to get an invitation to clean a building that is already in progress. We do not ask to price final cleaning when the job is in bidding phase (before the general contractor is awarded). Average email flow. 3 emails to random contact to figure out who is the project manager, 2 emails to project manager to confirm who is the superintendent, 2 emails to super to confirm when is the best time for a site visit.
What if we win a contract, and the general contractor sends the contract to cleaning partner, but the contract is made in the name of Construction Clean Partners?
Cleaning partner must call the person who sent the contract or project manager and have the company name changed to your company name. Construction Clean Partners name should not be on your contract. CCP does not contractor with general contractor’s. The company name on the contract must match the insurance submitted.
Who determines when a CCP cleaning partner can make a site visit with the superintendent on the job site?
The superintendent who works for the construction company will determine what time you can make a site visit. The super may have meetings or may be busy at certain times of the day that you should not visit. When making a site visit, you should walk around the building with someone who knows the cleaning scope requirements. You have to call the super on site before you visit and make an appointment.
Can CCP find our cleaning company regular janitorial/ regular maintenance contracts?
Construction Clean Partners only connects a cleaning company with a commercial building general contractor. We do not email or ask property maintenance companies for contracting opportunity, therefore we do not have regular cleaning job contract opportunities. Our lead generation system works on a general contractor database, which produces only 1 time contract post construction cleaning opportunities.
How does CCP notify cleaning partners of new job opportunities?
CCP will email you everything you need; the project name, site contact information (superintendent and project manager), the plans (if we have them), an estimated contract price, date the project needs to be completed, when the site visit is needed, an approval statement to bid the project, the job distance, as well as a description of what the project is.
We will also deliver you a sample scope that may need to be edited after you make a walkthrough.
Does CCP visit the job site to confirm scope, price, conditions, or to meet the project team?
Never does CCP visit a project site that our cleaning company will clean. We rely on the cleaning company to meet with the super on site to confirm conditions and scope. Our cleaning partner always determines the price they want to charge via a phone conversation, the plans, or a physical site visit.
How does a CCP cleaning partner schedule a site visit to confirm pricing and scope?
Once CCP sends the 2-email flow. The super will see your name in an email “you are going to call to schedule a site visit” you should call the super once this email is sent. When you talk to the super, reference the project manager name “Jim is looking for a final clean price and we want to schedule a site visit to confirm the scope and final clean price, what time can we come to the site this week”
A cleaning company submits a bid for a job, “we love this company and want more work from them, do you have more information on this company?”
CCP has access to the construction company basic contact information, their plan room for adding new opportunities, and their pre qual application. We have other bidding job opportunities, or recently completed jobs in the company profile . We also have all the employee contacts plus their email address for communication. We rent our database from DoConstructionBusiness.
Does CCP help my cleaning company bid?
For all jobs we estimate an amount based on 25 cents per square foot. If the job is an apartment complex and we do not now the square footage, we will use the number of units x $125 per unit to arrive at a final clean price. If the job is industrial (example. warehouse, storage facility, waste water plant) then we multiply the square footage x .13cents. This amount is shown to your before you make a site visit. After you visit and confirm the amount you want to charge, CCP will support your company by creating and submitting a proposal to the project manager in your company name.
Where is your busiest state?
Our business is data and the expertise of our partners, which allows us to win contracts. You can see each state awarded jobs here https://constructioncleanpartners.com/where-we-work/
We have been awarded the most contracts in Georgia. Report date October 2017
How does a CCP cleaning partner submit a proposal?
You can submit your own proposal to the project manager and copy christian@constructioncleanpartners.com. Or you can email it us and we can submit the bid on your behalf (while we copy you on the proposal submittal email). You can use your own proposal or a CCP proposal template.
Either way your cleaning company contracts with and invoices the General Contractor directly, and CCP earns a commission from your cleaning company.
Who follows up with the project manager after a proposal is submitted?
CCP will follow up with the project manager every 7 days after the proposal is submitted, On the forth follow, we will start to email the superintendent to as for approval or a decline in our proposal submitted in our cleaning company partner company name. Each cleanign partner has 100% open lines of communication with any contact that works for the company. You can follow up with the project manager and superintendent by phone or email. We can both follow up, but it becomes confusing if the pm tells CCP “I need 3 more weeks” then cleaning partner asks the next day. ” are we awarded ?” Solution: cleaning company can notify CCP by email “do not follow up on proposal” and we will not send any follow up emails. If you need to know if the proposal was accepted in order to secure the date and laborers. Call the project manager and negotiate a start date.
What information does a cleaning company need to submit to CCP after registering?
A copy of your insurance that you will use to contract with any general contractor. CCP does not need to be the certificate holder, “for bidding purposes”, or “for information only”, or “any other company name is acceptable as the cert holder when you are submitting a copy of your insurance. We need a copy of your W9 (download blank w9 here to fill in). These 2 documents let us confirm you are a real company. The company name should be the same from each document. We do not need any other documents when you register with us.
Does CCP’s cleaning partners have competitors?
CCP will only work with 1 company per job, we will only connect 1 company with the superintendent and submit only 1 proposal per job. Once we send you the contacts and project details, we will not share the information with any other company. It is possible other cleaning companies may be interested in the job, but they will have no connection with Construction Clean Partners. The general contractor will search to get up to 3 prices per job usually. On the job match page, after 1 cleaning company chooses commissions, that job is removed from the page and no one else can see the job name to select the job commissions.
How does a cleaning company partner with CCP?
For a cleaning company to make a site visit with a project in which a project manager has asked CCP to help submit a final clean price, the cleaning company must choose commissions first at https://constructioncleanpartners.com/finalcleancommissions/ or the cleaning company must be at CCP premium member https://constructioncleanpartners.com/network/. We will let the super on site know you will call to schedule a site visit and the cleaning company will get all the project details to allow a site visit.
What fees are associated with registering with CCP?
It is free to enter your company information in our system so we can email you about final clean job opportunities within 70 miles from your office location. This is the basic CCP membership. You do not have to ever pay any money to get the job email notifications where we ask you to be our 1 cleaning partner on this job and select commissions from the job match page. If you do not open 5 emails in a row, we will mark your cleaning company not active and we will stop emailing you. What is the Job match page?
There is report of available jobs for a post construction cleaning company to partner with CCP, confirm a final clean price, and submit a proposal to the project manager. Any job on this page is ready for a site visit now, job finishes are being installed and the pm is requesting a final clean price now. Once 1 company chooses commission on a job or we are told a cleaning proposal is no longer required, the job will be removed from Job match page. You have to pay $1 and choose commissions to be the only cleaning partner for this job. You then pay 5% or 10% of total contract amount. Example. You see an estimated amount of $10,000 on job match, you choose 5% commissions that you pay the week you are awarded. Commissions due that Friday of award week are in the amount of $500 that is debited from the same card you used to pay $1 at job match. Total fees paid $501. Estimated profit for your company- $4,500.
What is the difference between the basic free membership and the CCP Premium paid membership
Basic membership must use the job match page to select commissions on every job, the job match page only shows jobs that the CCP Premium Membership member does not want. We can only have 1 Premium member in each major city, these are select cities based on the amount of final clean request that CCP receives. A CCP Premium member can accept a job 400 miles away if they choose. CCP must provide 3 site visits per quarter to a premium member or the membership fee is 100% refunded.
Where does CCP present jobs to their partners?
Traveling over 1 hour to get to a job site is the furthest we expect a cleaning partner to travel. When we get a request to submit a final clean price, we use a map tool and search for a cleaning partner within 70 miles from the job site. We want all our cleaning partners to visit the job site with the super on site to confirm the scope and price.
Where does CCP work?
We are completing construction cleaning contracts in USA and Canada. All of our awarded jobs are located here, you can sort the state column and see awarded jobs by state or province. For all jobs, we want to make a site visit to confirm scope and pricing. We have a network of vetted cleaning companies who can complete final clean contracts with general contractors. Our local CCP Network Member will always contract with the general contractor and provide the required insurance.
The below are open opportunities; construction projects that we have been told a general contractor is bidding or currently building and looking for vendors. We use these opportunities to email contacts that work for construction companies. This is our pipeline. Report date October 2017
Does the cleaning partner receive a signed contract when awarded a job as a CCP partner?
The final cleaning contact is between the general contractor and the cleaning company. The GC will prepare a contract / purchase order for cleaning company and cleaner will have the contract before they start work. Compliance instructions will likely be in the contact terms. The cleaning company will need to submit compliance to the general contractor before starting work. Cleaning company will start scheduling with the superintendent once cleaner has a contract.
How will the cleaning partner know a proposal has been accepted?
Whether CCP submits the proposal or the cleaning company submits to the project manager, the approval is notified via email. 5% of the time a project manager or superintendent may call to verbally approve. But written approval is always needed before starting a job. When CCP submits the proposal, the cleaning company is copied on the submittals so ideally the approval reply includes the cleaning partner. If CCP receives an approval reply and the cleaning company is not copied, we will forward this email to you. If the cleaning partner submits the proposal, it’s likely the cleaning company receives the contract directly and CCP is not notified.
What if I paid $1 on the job match page, but I did not get the superintendent introduction the same day?
Your company will be related to the job, and the job is removed from the job match page so no other company can choose commissions for the job. If you did not receive the 2-email flow introducing you to the superintendent already, it is because CCP is missing critical job details that will allow you to make the site visit and understand what the job is before you visit. Possibly its slightly too early for you to see job finishes. We will only work with your company on this job. We will keep you updated as more information is gathered.
Are the jobs on the job match page already awarded to the general contractor?
Yes, each job on the job match page have already been awarded to the GC, and close to completion. The final cleaning has not been awarded ad the project manager has requested that a cleaning company visit the superintendent at the job site now to confirm a final clean price. We may know about the job 4 months before we put the job on the job match page, the job match page only contains jobs that a cleaning company can make a site visit this week. Finishes are already installed.
Do CCP premium members get a login and password?
There is no login for CCP premium members or any commission cleaning partners. There is no system to login, all communication is managed by email and phone. You are emailed your pipeline and introduced to superintendents and project managers by email.
I am a CCP Premium member and you shared our pipeline with me, do I go talk to the superintendents?
If we shared the pipeline with you, we list superintendent and project manager if we know both, you can communicate with both people. But, we use the “send partner details date” to estimate the date in which we think you should visit the superintendent at the job site, based on when the project manager wants to buy the final cleaning contract. You know we share the project with you, when we send the back to back emails. (The superintendent on site will get an email “expressing you will call to confirm a site visit time” cleaning company is copied on this email. 2. Full job details (only to you
First email to send after being awarded a final clean contract
We’re confirming we’ve been awarded the job.
We’ll start scheduling as soon as possible. Also, we are now working on getting our compliance submitted to you.
Our scheduler for all labor and on the job specifics should be contacted by using this number:
Name
Phone
What CCP would tell our cleaning partner if we lost a bid
It appears we lost the bid on this project. No further information was given apart from notifying us we weren’t awarded. Feel free to touch base with the project contacts to get a reason on why we lost.
How does CCP get paid?
Cleaning companies will always pay CCP. We earn quarterly fees from CCP Premium members, 5% or 10% commissions from all awarded jobs that we make an introduction, this is from the job match page and the jobs we share with our premium members. We earn $1 for all job match jobs processed- fee for a cleaning company to choose commissions and be the only company we work with to submit a final clean proposal.
You do not pay us until we win a contract together. CCP only earns a commission if you are awarded a job contract and earning money.
What is the 2-email flow CCP sends to share project details with a cleaning company?
- The superintendent on site will get an email “expressing you will call to confirm a site visit time” cleaning company is copied on this email. 2. Full job details (only to you). The idea of the first email is to give an introduction to the superintendent and cleaning company main contact, also a warning that cleaning company is going to be coming by the site to confirm a final clean scope and price. The project detail to the cleaner will include: the project manager and superintendent name, phone and email address, project address, architectural drawings in a google share folder, statements from the pm or super confirming a final clean price is required, construction company name and their address.
What if our cleaning partner submits a proposal without sending a copy to CCP
It is 100% ok for the cleaning company to submit proposal directly to the project manager, but for communication reasons, CCP should know when the proposal is submitted.
Why? CCP will email the construction company every 8 days after we send the original 2 email flow sharing the project details with cleaning company and letting the superintendent know that our cleaning company will call to schedule a site visit. If the cleaning company already made the site visit and submitted a bid, and CCP does not know. We are sending emails like: “Can we still make a site visit?” , “where is the best place to park for our final clean visit” , “Can you still use a final clean proposal”, and each of these emails can have an old incorrect price in the subject line.
Then the pm or super gets confused and says” i thought you guys already came to the site and actually we have a proposal”
CCP and or cleaning company look unorganized, if we are unorganized off the job site, on the job site it’s likely that we will be unorganized also.
If CCP is not copied on the proposal when you submit, send us a copy, the amount, or the day you submitted at your earliest convenience.
I choose 5% commissions, when will I pay CCP?
CCP will draw commissions the week you are awarded the contract or if we are not informed the day you are awarded and we find out in the future, we will draw commissions the day we are informed the contract has been awarded to our partner. There is no invoice sent, CCP will draw the 5% from the card your used to pay the $1 when you selected your commissions option.
Explain the CCP commissions structure in detail?
The CCP Basic Member who chooses their project on the Job Match page pays either 5% or 10% commissions on the total contract amount. We will withdraw 5% on Friday at 5pm EST the week of the contract award. Ex. if we are awarded a project on Tuesday, (we get an email from PM saying the project has been awarded to you, here is a PO) then on Friday we will draw 5% of that contract amount. There is no invoice for the CCP Basic Member. Consider the receipt from when you choose commissions on the Job Match page your invoice.
Then the 10% will be withdrawn once we are notified you have been paid from the General Contractor. We prefer to be notified by our cleaning partner, that you have been paid. CCP has an idea of when you are paid and we will follow up with the project manager or accounts payable rep from the General Contractor to confirm that you have been paid. We will forward the email to you that you have been paid and we will withdrawal the 10% of the total contract amount that week. Yes it’s possible the total contract amount can change from start to end of a project. There can be positive or negative change orders that affect the total contract amount.
If you are a CCP Premium Member, you can make your commission amounts up and pay us once you are paid. We always recommend you pay CCP 10%, but once you visit the site and realize you can win the project if you pay CCP 4%, we will agree to accept the lower commissions.
There are no commissions paid if you’re a CCP Basic Member or Premium Member if there were issues on job that causes you to lose money. If you are kicked off the job for any reason, or if you quit the job. CCP will void all invoices or not withdraw any money from your card if you can prove that there was an issue that caused you to lose money. Usually these issues are brought up to CCP in an email while they are operating/ on the job issues are happening.
If you do not win the project, cleaning partner does not owe any commissions, CCP can only withdraw commissions from our cleaning partner if you are awarded the contract from the General Contractor for the job that you selected commissions on. So, if you pay the $1 and choose 5%, then you make a site visit, but the proposal is declined, then you do not owe CCP 5% commissions of your proposal amount.
Commissions paid is based on the contract amount for 5% commissions and for 10% commissions, commissions are based on total invoice amount including all change orders; negative or positive. Commission is never based on profit earned by cleaning company.
What if a CCP cleaning partner does not profit, loses money or fails on a contract?
You’re profit always comes first, and we would never expect to make more than you do on a project.
Our guarantee is simple: Your profit will be at least double our commission, or you owe us nothing. (Your profit will usually be much more than this).
How does a CCP cleaning partner get paid, and how long does it take?
You’ll submit the total contract amount invoice directly to the general contractor, that contractor will pay your invoice after all contract compliance requirements are approved.
Average time to get paid is within 30 days of bill date. General contractors have different billing cycles; some once, some twice per month.
If a project is in progress and contractors billing cycle ends, cleaning company can bill contractor for percentage of completion for invoice to be applied to current billing cycle. Then wait 30 days to receive payment. You negotiate payment terms directly with the contractor.
Refund
We submit refund requests to your bank immediately. You see the refund as a credit approximately 5-10 business days later, depending upon the bank.
Refunds can only be sent back to the original payment method used in a charge. It’s not possible to send a refund to a different destination (e.g., another card or bank account).
Refunds to expired or canceled cards are handled by the customer’s bank and, in most cases, credited to the customer’s replacement card. If no replacement exists, the bank usually delivers the refund to the customer using an alternate method (e.g., check or bank account deposit).
How long does it take to be paid retainage?
Some general contractors must hold retainage if contract value is over $5,000. The time limit is not written how long they must hold. It is different based on the project owner and how fast they are paying the general contractor. Well, the GC can pay any subcontractor at any time, it depends on how much cash flow or how much they want to lend money to individual contractors on their projects. If you are waiting 4 months for retainage to be paid, believe you are still being paid. The GC already paid you 90% of the funds. The GC is waiting for all approvals, so the owner can fully take ownership of the building.
Our Dates
Bid Due Date
Date is given from company invitation to bid request or company internal plan room. Bid due date is when all subcontractors are requested to submit an estimate to the general contractor for quoting purposes. This date can be used as a timeline of when the job was starting. We figure on a new construction project; the GC does not break ground until 3 months after the bid due date. The gc does not if they are awarded until 2 weeks after the bid due date. The gc estimating team collects prices from all the trades in their vendor system local to the project bidding, then they use the most responsible price for each trade quote submitted and will compile 1 number to submit to the owner for acceptance of the gc bidding price. If you get an email from us and see bid due date blank, it’s because we received the job information after the bid due date and the gc has already been awarded.
Send Partner Details
The estimated date our cleaning partner should receive the project details to start scheduling a site visit appointment. This date is determined by when the project manager wants to see a final clean proposal or when the building will be complete. Partner needs 1 week notice so partner can visit the site and get price back to CCP or submit proposal to project manager. If this date is passed and the cleaner doesn’t have the details, it’s because we are missing the site contact you will walk with, or the street number. Ideally send partner details date and partner sent project details are the same exact date. If we have site contact name and cell, along with street number, on the send partner details date we send the 2-email flow. 1 email to super on site copying the final clean scheduler and the 2nd email (project details) will go to the final clean scheduler only.
In our internal system, this date is required when a job hits the negotiation stage so we know when to email related contacts. If the end partner details date is 4 months in the future, its too soon to talk to related contacts, wait until 4 months because we have been told to reach back out at this time. If we do not know when the proposal is required or when the building will be complete, make the end partner details date now because its time to ask contacts when the cleaning will start, once we find out when the cleaning price is required, then adjust end partner details date to reflect the when statement. Adjust the end partner details date during the lifecycle of a negotiations stage job based on changing schedule. end partner details date can be Now, 1 week. 1 month. 3 months. 6 months. 9 months and given date.
Partner sent project details
the exact day that CCP sends full project detail package to cleaning partner. This date 2 emails are sent, 1 to the site contact and the cleaning partner is copied, another email is only sent to cleaning partner so they have all the project details to know the General Contractor, decision makers, and what is this project CCP is asking cleaning partner to make a site visit and price. after this date, the cleaning partner needs to confirm a price they want to charge. CCP is waiting for us to submit a proposal. Cleaner should have made a site visit and confirmed scope.
The psd date will be removed if cleaning partner declines opportunity and we have to relate new opportunity. If we give cleaning partner job details too early and cleaner cannot walk the site for months in future, remove psd date (take the job back). We know cleaning partner has job information if psd is not blank.
Date proposal submitted
The date proposal is emailed to project manager, and cleaning partner is copied or has sent the proposal. Cleaning partner has confirmed a price by email CCP before this date, CCP has sent cleaning partner job details to make site visit and has not heard a price confirmation, so CCP submits a proposal for cleaning partner with CCP estimate.
Will send follow up emails after this date and use this “proposal submitted” date in these follow-up emails. At times our cleaning partner may submit the proposal without CCP knowing, then CCP finds out proposal was submitted, but we still do not know the exact date, we will mark proposal submit date as the day we find out the proposal has been submitted.
Date will not change after first proposal submit date. CCP may submit more than one proposal on an opportunity with only 1 cleaning company.
Close date
Expected date the gc will award the final clean contract, or the actual date the job is awarded. When creating new opp. close date is required.
How we treat close date in different stages
Bidding gc and no bid due date, close date is 1 week from creation
Project in progress, close date is 1 week from creation
Pipdcmkr, close date can be now, 1 week, 1 month, 3 month or 6 months in future depending on the next follow up date. Do not change the close date while in pipdcmkr stage, if primary contact gives neutral or positive response, move opportunity to negotiations and if negative, we move down to project in progress or change stage to closed complete or closed.
When changing stages from pipdcmkr to negotiations, do not change close date, adjust spd date
After date proposal submitted we use close date to know when to start follow up emails. If we submit proposal on January 1 and the primary contact says that he will make a decision until 6 months. Move close date 6 months in future, so we do know not follow up too early. If close date is current or in past, the follow up emails will start to send to related contacts. Close date is reintroduced first time in negotiation since either the creation date or a close date before negotiations
Closed lost, closed not GC, closed complete- do not change close date
Why do commercial general contractors use CCP?
GC’s can have a hard time finding a qualified cleaning company with insurance. CCP has already done due diligence on the company we will refer you to. Our cleaning partner will only contract with you, just as if CCP did not help with a recommendation. The cleaning company will walk the site before pricing, so the superintendent will meet the cleaning company face to face before contracting. You have another company to rely on; if the cleaning company stops answering calls or emails for scheduling, issues on site, Davis bacon prevailing wage, or any post labor issues. CCP can support our cleaning company and the general contractor. The total contract price is competitive with or without CCP, in 5 years we have won over 680 projects with this same business model. See awarded jobs here
What information does CCP need to submit a final clean price?
It’s possible for us to estimate the final cleaning off of the architectural plans. However, a site visit would allow us to confirm the scope and conditions and give a much more competitive price based on the required scope.
What is Construction Clean Partners basic information to be an approved vendor or be entered into a subcontractor database?
Below, you’ll find our address for the vendor application:
Construction Clean Partners
690 S. US Highway 89, Suite 200
Jackson, Wyoming 83001
(307) 298-9335
Invitation to bid contact name: Emma Lynn
Invitation to bid email: info@constructioncleanpartners.com
Working region- USA nationwide and Canada province wide
CSI 01740- final clean
With the above information, we should start receiving invitation to bid notifications
Can CCP complete laborers union work, are you signatory to the laborers union?
We have cleaning partners who can complete union work (either signatory or able to sign project labor agreement) in Wisconsin, Seattle, Ontario, St. Louis, Boston, Chicago, and California. In our experience, the top 3 states with most union work are: 1. Illinois, 2. California, 3. Massachusetts.
What are your union labor rates?
In Chicago, the labor rate is $69 per hour.
When do you want to walk the job site to provide a final clean price?
We’d like to visit the job site when other trades are nearly finishing their scopes (job finishes are installed)
If we walk the site when the job is just starting, the cleaning company has not idea of how the flooring looks, or how dirty the cabinets/ glass is when cleaning starts.
How many cleaning companies are in the CCP network?
700+ cleaning companies are in the CCP network, we continue to complete due diligence on our partners and remove unqualified cleaning companies from the network every month. 30 cleaning companies enter per month and 10 will be marked not active. We do not connect not active cleaning partners to a general contractor.
Can a construction company choose the cleaning company to contract with?
There is no opportunity for the construction company to look into our network of cleaning companies and choose the cleaning company they want to do business with. CCP recommends the best cleaning company for each job based on location, union or minority requirements, and scheduling. The construction company is never forced or under contract to approve a proposal from a CCP partner. 90% of the proposals we submit, the construction company meets the cleaning company before a proposal is submitted during the scope and price confirmation site visit walk through.
How fast can CCP submit a final clean proposal?
If a site visit can be made today, we can visit and submit a proposal within 48 hours from the request. It is possible that our cleaning partner can even call the super on site to fully understand the scope and we submit a proposal without making a site visit, which will reduce the amount of time.
What does it cost a construction company to submit projects for a final clean bid request from CCP?
Project managers, estimators, and project administrators share job locations and site contact name and phone for free to CCP. There is no cost for CCP to get a final clean proposal submitted. We connect the construction company with our cleaning partner and the construction company will always contract with the cleaning company directly. Click here to site visits, bids, and final cleans the easy way
Why CCP emails a construction company about a project in progress or a bidding project.
We added the project to our system from a plan room or we were sent an invite to bid notification. We have to ask the status of the final cleaning scope, is the proposal still required? Have you purchased the cleaning already? Can we make a site visit to confirm pricing? If we are not told, “a final clean price is not needed” we will continue to ask about the status. We took the time to add the project to our system, we must be told “NO” before we can close the project and not ask about the status again.