Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 18th July 2013 Issue no. 583
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Cleanzine - the original Cleaning & Hygiene industry e-news Read by industry professionals in 148 countries worldwide! The story below in ‘This week’s news’, headed ‘Contractor ended up biting off more than it could chew’, highlights some of the issues faced not only by the cleaning industry worldwide but by anyone providing/buying a service: if the quote’s a great deal more expensive than everyone else’s the service provider will lose the bid; if it’s too cheap the service provider may end up with more work than it can handle with the resources available and the client can suffer from poor service and bad results. Or indeed no service, as the story reveals. Following the original article, which appeared in Alaskan newspaper Juneau Empire and which reports contractor Reach Custodial Services losing its contracts in a re-tender process to rival JJG Cleaning Services, which vastly undercut Reach’s prices, were a number of comments from readers. One says: “JJG's bid was $193.000.00, Reach's bid was $312,000,00. Looks like ya get what ya pay for(sic).” It led me to thinking about the fine line a contractor treads when entering the tender process. It can’t be easy to ensure that you have all the necessary resources available in terms of staff and equipment and all your costs covered as well as some profit written in, whilst making sure that your bid is attractive enough to the decision-makers to be in with a chance of success. And what happens if you suddenly lose a big contract? What happens to all the staff and the expensive equipment you’ve earmarked for the job? Those who believe that running a cleaning business is easy, clearly don’t know quite what's involved ...
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    This Week's News
Mary de Cobos of leading independent cleaning consultancy, Futureclean Assured Systems, writes: In response to your article on Denise Foster of the Association of Healthcare Cleaning Professionals, as consultants in cleaning systems, we would like to say the following:
All cleaners should be trained; a requirement that is dismissed seemingly without thought as being too expensive or unnecessary. Yet, the requirements for cleaning knowledge and techniques are far higher than most people appreciate; you only have to witness how much damage can be done to surface materials, to people or to the surrounding environment by any one of the following: Contractor ended up biting off more than it could chew When the State of Alaska put 10 of its cleaning contracts out to tender, JJG clearly impressed the decision-makers and was awarded eight of them - only to hand back three because it didn't have the resources to service all eight.
Now the previous contractor - Reach- is hoping to step into the breach by winning back those three contracts that it had lost. Street cleaners search waste for precious metals
This time however, a street cleaning company is deliberately sifting through the rubbish it collects in the hope that it will find precious metals.
"Ultimately," says Vectair, "this demonstrates Prozone as a product that cannot only clean the air around us effectively, but as one that is also completely safe to users." IFMA releases realigned Certified Facility Manager credential with two new competency areas The International Facility Management Association has released a revised CFM Exam based on an updated and realigned framework for its flagship credential, the Certified Facility Manager. The updated CFM Exam accounts for the most recent Global Job Task Force Analysis which highlighted two new competency areas - emergency preparedness and business continuity and environmental stewardship and sustainability - bringing the total to 11. Violetta: a small pressure washer that offers high performance
Reliable and extremely handy, thanks to its small size, Violetta is ideal for continuous work of up to three hours' duration. It is designed and made in Italy and even though it is small, it has all the characteristics which are common to all the pressure washers that are manufactured by the Idrobase Group. New griddle cleaning system cuts cleaning time in half
Employers urged to take extra care of young people starting Summer jobs Workers are far more likely to be injured in workplace accidents during the first few months of a new job than at any other time says the British Safety Council. With the holiday season approaching, employers are urged to pay extra attention to the health & safety of young people hired for temporary, Summer work. NHS Supply Chain chooses new all-purple cytotoxic/cytostatic waste bags from GV Health
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