How to win: Building Cleaning Services Contract [2026-2029]

About this contract

Building cleaning services to communal areas and shared spaces within Havebury properties and offices. The cleaning will consist of routine cleans carried out to a programme, reactive or urgent biohazard cleans and various ad-hoc cleaning. Staff will be required to have and maintain DBS certification. Occasionally we may have a requirement for emergency ad-hoc cleans on working and non-working days of the year any time of the day or night. We would require a supplier to have the ability to respond to this requirement.

How to win contracts like this

• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — Havebury Homes scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £3,500,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: it closes 1 May 2026 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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