Facility service decisions, backed by the numbers.
Affiliated Corporate Services helps building owners specify, bid, and manage janitorial and facility service contracts — and helps cleaning contractors price and staff those contracts so the work is actually deliverable at the number they quoted.
Define the scope. Compare with confidence. Manage the results.
A specification gets written without a measured scope. Bids come back spread across a 40 percent range with no way to compare them. The low bidder wins, understaffs the building, and quality collapses in month four. Everyone involved loses — and the cycle repeats at the next renewal.
Scope without measurement
Specifications that list tasks but never quantify cleanable square footage, fixture counts, or frequencies can't be priced consistently — or enforced later.
Bids that can't be compared
When each contractor makes different assumptions about coverage and staffing, the proposals aren't measuring the same thing. Price alone tells you very little.
No accountability after award
Without defined inspection criteria and a documented review cadence, contract performance drifts quietly until it becomes a crisis.
Two sides of the same contract.
ACS works both sides of the table — never on the same contract at the same time. Understanding how contractors actually build a price is what makes the owner-side work credible, and vice versa.
Building Owners & Facility Managers
You are responsible for a clean, compliant building and a defensible budget.
- Independent scope development and specification writing
- RFP management and apples-to-apples bid analysis
- Budget validation before you go to market
- Ongoing quality inspection and contract oversight
Cleaning Contractors & BSCs
You need to win work at a price you can actually staff and still profit on.
- Production-rate analysis and labor modeling
- Bid review before submission — catch the loss-makers early
- Staffing plans, route design, and workloading
- Operational assessment and management coaching
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Measured scope. Published rates. Documented results.
Every engagement starts with the building, not the budget. We measure or verify cleanable area, establish task frequencies, and apply recognized industry production rates to build a labor model from the ground up.
That model becomes the specification, the budget, and — after award — the standard the contract is measured against. It is transparent enough that both the owner and the contractor can see exactly where the hours went.
About the PracticeProduction rates are the foundation. ACS builds labor models on BSCAI Production Rate Recommendations as the baseline, adjusted for facility type, density, and finish. A medical facility, a mall, and a suburban office building do not clean at the same rate — and a credible budget reflects that.
- Cleanable square footage verified, not estimated from a lease
- Frequencies set by use and traffic, not by habit
- Rates adjusted for facility type and obstruction density
- Set-up and clean-up time accounted for in every task
- Staffing translated into real shifts, routes, and headcount
Watch: What Makes a Good SOP?
See the ten characteristics that turn an SOP into a practical system for consistent execution, measurable performance, and continuous improvement.
Watch in the Resource CenterStart with a conversation about your building.
Tell us the facility type, approximate square footage, and what's not working. We'll tell you candidly whether an engagement makes sense — and what it would involve.
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