How to win: CfT_6659605 PME Questionnaire for External Cleaning Services Contract

About this contract

Preliminary Market Engagement exercise for our forthcoming External Contract Cleaning Services Tender. We welcome supplier feedback on innovative cleaning methods, including the use of smart technologies, sustainable practices and data-driven performance management. Your insights will help shape a contract that delivers high standards of cleanliness, efficiency and value for money, ensuring public funds are used effectively and responsibly. We encourage you to share your experience, ideas and examples of best practice to help inform the development of a future-focused and outcome-driven service specification. The Council hope to be able to award the contract in early to mid-2027

How to win contracts like this

• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £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 19 August 2026 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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