Hi everyone,
I am new to this forum and I need some help, my wife and I went today and looked at 5 offices and the sq ft and times to clean are as followed
4000 sq ft two times a week
1000 sq ft two times a week
1000 sq ft two times a week (have to drive to another town)
2000 sq ft two times a week (have to drive to another town)
10,000 sq ft 5 times a week or at least 3 times a week
Can someone give me a suggestion on how to bid on these, they will provide all cleaning supply, the type of offices are home health care with just the employees in and out, the duties will be the everyday, dusting, sweeping, mopping,empty trash cans,vacuuming, and cleaing bathrooms.
Thank you so much

How many people will you have to hire to do this, what are the wages going to be, ( don't forget to add all of the fringe benefits and taxes that have to be paid) And you have to esp how long it takes you to do the jobs.do you take trash out, do you have to clean desk areas, or just sweep or vac. Whose equipment is going to be used
You have to decide what your costs is and what percent of profit you need to make,

Your greatest obstacle is trying to determine how much the owners are willing to pay. It kind of sounds like you can do this work with just the labor of you and your wife. As small business owners providing your own labor, you can side step many of the payroll costs. You should however pay more that the minimum into Social Security to increase your entitlement amount when you retire.

Back to the business end. Owner's that you work for, won't care how much driving you do to get to the job. They are only concerned with their outlay. You need to allow yourself enough time to go after other jobs in any case. You may need to adjust your rates at some point and lose some customers because of it. By supplying your own labor, all you can lose is your time. Instead of making $ 15-20 an hour you might be working for $ 5-6.

Guess the time it would take for each job. Try and determine how much your time is worth. Guess at what the client might be willing to pay.

I can't give you more, because the rates would depend heavily on the location. Washington DC would be a lot higher that Blackwell, OK.

Estimating costs is the hardest part of any small business. I wish you well.

The wife and I have other jobs but if this works out we will go at it full time by ourselves and bring on others as we need to, I have never bidded on anything this large and don't want to scare the people we are giving the bids to. It will be the usual cleaning, taking trash out, dusting desk areas, sweeping, mopping, vacuuming,cleaning bathrooms, kitchen area, they will be providing all cleaning supply and equipment, the area is in a small town in Southeastern part of Kentucy.
Thank you for any help you can provide