Government
Public buildings are cleaned in public. Everything is on a record somebody can request.
City halls, county buildings, state facilities, libraries, public works and rest areas — cleaned by badged, background-checked employees, to a written scope, with the documentation a procurement file and a public-records request both expect.
What it is
Public-sector cleaning is not technically different from any other commercial work. What is different is the paperwork around it and the fact that any of it can be asked for. A specification is written before anyone bids. Insurance certificates and their expiry dates matter. Who is in the building, and whether they were checked, is a question that gets asked in a meeting that is minuted.
That suits a company that runs this way anyway. Everyone who works in your building is our employee — on our payroll, our workers' compensation and our insurance, background-checked and badged. There is no layer of subcontracting to explain and nobody in the building whose vetting we cannot show you.
The second thing public buildings need is a scope that matches the bid. A cleaning contract awarded on a specification is only as good as whether the specification is actually being performed, and the honest way to run that is scheduled supervisor inspections against the written scope, with the result available to you rather than kept as an internal score.
The third is consistency across sites. A county with a courthouse, an annex, a maintenance garage and three outlying buildings does not want four standards and four invoices. One account manager, one scope structure, one standard.
What we clean
Public-facing space
- Lobbies, service counters, waiting areas and queuing space — touch points, glass, floors and furniture
- Public restrooms cleaned and disinfected, dispensers restocked, floors done to the corners
- Meeting and chamber rooms reset between uses, including evening meetings
- Entries and vestibules maintained through weather; entry matting managed in winter
- Elevators, stairwells, rails and corridors
Offices and staff areas
- Workstations, counters and touch points; trash and recycling with any required separation
- Break rooms, kitchens and staff restrooms
- Secure areas cleaned to your access rules — escorted, restricted or excluded entirely as your policy states
- Floors and carpet maintained to type, with deep cleaning on a schedule
- Interior glass and partitions
Specialized public facilities
- Libraries: public seating, study areas, children's areas, computer stations and heavy-traffic entry floors
- Public works and maintenance garages: break rooms, restrooms, locker areas and shop floors
- Recreation and community buildings, including gyms and locker rooms
- Rest areas and facilities on a standalone schedule, where the cleaning record is the service record
Scheduled and project work
- Hard floors stripped and refinished on a documented cycle
- Window cleaning inside and out on a frequency written into the scope
- Power washing of entries, plazas, sidewalks and service areas
- High dusting, vents and light fittings on rotation
- Additional work quoted against the contract rather than absorbed quietly or billed as a surprise
How service works here
Held back for review: this part of Build4 named a customer or a person, or carried a figure, so it was held back. It is listed in the doorway ledger.
Getting started
- Pre-bid walkthrough of every building in the solicitation, not a sample. Pricing a courthouse off a photo of a lobby helps nobody.
- Response to your specification, with any exceptions stated plainly rather than buried.
- Transition plan. Staff, checks, badging, keys and access arranged before the start date, because a public building cannot have a gap.
- Ongoing. Scheduled inspections with results provided, certificate tracking, and a named account manager for the term.