Resources
Written for the person drafting the solicitation
None of these sell anything. A property manager writing an RFP has budget, authority and a date, and the useful thing to hand that person is not a brochure.
- 8 min read
What commercial facility management actually costs
What drives the price of a commercial facility services contract, which numbers are real and which are negotiable, and how to compare two bids that look different on purpose.
Written for property managers and facilities directors building a budget or comparing bids.
- 10 min read
The facility services RFP checklist
What to put in a facility services solicitation so the bids come back comparable, and the specific omissions that produce three quotes you cannot evaluate against each other.
Written for whoever is actually drafting the solicitation. Copy the sections you need.
- 7 min read
Certificates of insurance, and what to actually require
What a certificate of insurance proves, what it does not, the coverages that matter for facility services work, and the endorsement most certificates are missing.
Written for property managers and owners collecting vendor certificates.
- 9 min read
How to choose a facility services vendor
The questions that separate a vendor who will still be performing in month eight from one who looked good in the presentation, and the answers that should end a conversation.
Written for whoever owns the vendor relationship and will be living with the decision.
- 7 min read
Preventive versus reactive maintenance
What preventive maintenance actually prevents, what it does not, and how to decide which systems in your building justify a PM program.
Written for facilities directors deciding where a maintenance budget goes.
- 7 min read
In-house versus contracted janitorial
The full cost of an in-house cleaning team against a contracted one, including the lines that never make it onto the comparison, and the situations where in-house genuinely wins.
Written for anyone being asked to justify a cleaning contract, or to cut one.
- 5 min read
Day porter or night crew
What each actually does, why most buildings with visitor traffic need both, and how to size day porter coverage without guessing.
Written for property managers scoping a janitorial contract.
- 8 min read
The Houston commercial building maintenance calendar
A seasonal maintenance calendar built for the Gulf Coast, where the cooling season runs nine months, the growing season never really stops, and hurricane season is a scheduled event.
Written for facilities directors and property managers on the Texas Gulf Coast.
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