Who Supplies the Bags, You or Your Cleaning Contractor

One line in a janitorial scope of work decides who buys the liners, which spec gets used and who absorbs the cost when they fail. Here is how to read that line and what to change.

If your building uses an outside cleaning contractor, somewhere in that agreement is a line about consumables. It usually runs to a sentence. It decides who buys the trash liners, and by extension it decides what spec goes into your bins, who absorbs the cost when a bag fails, and whether anybody has a reason to care about quality. Most facility managers have never read it closely. It is worth ten minutes, because it is one of the few contract terms where the cheaper-looking option is frequently...

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