You know how to clean a building. Pricing it is the part nobody trained you for.
Cleanpricing gives independent commercial cleaning contractors square-footage guidance, bid templates, and the walkthrough questions that actually move a quote, so you stop guessing and start bidding with a number you can defend.
Why this exists
Cleanpricing started from a simple observation: independent cleaning contractors are usually excellent at the work and left to guess at the business math around it. There is no standard rate card for office cleaning. A contractor bidding a 12,000 square foot medical office three nights a week has almost nowhere to check whether $0.11 or $0.19 a square foot is the sane number for that building type, that frequency, and that market.
Most contractors we talked to before building this either underbid to win the job and then resented it for two years, or overbid on gut instinct and lost the walkthrough to a competitor with a sharper-looking proposal. Neither is a pricing problem you can solve by working harder. It is a problem of not having the reference points that bigger janitorial companies build up over time with a dedicated estimator.
We are not a janitorial company and we do not clean anything ourselves. Cleanpricing is software: a set of pricing ranges by building type and frequency, a library of bid templates, and a list of questions to ask a facilities manager before you ever set a number, built so a one-person or small-crew operation can quote like it has an estimating department behind it.
Square footage is the starting point, not the answer
Two office buildings at the same square footage can take wildly different amounts of labor. A 20,000 square foot open-plan tech office with three occupants per desk and a full kitchen cleans differently than a 20,000 square foot medical suite with private offices, exam rooms, and biohazard disposal.
That is why Cleanpricing's guidance is never a single number per square foot. It starts with a base range for the building type, then adjusts for frequency, occupancy density, floor coverings, and the specific rooms a facilities manager mentions on the walkthrough — restrooms, break rooms, server rooms, and anything with special handling. The goal is a defensible starting number you can explain line by line if a facilities manager pushes back, not a figure pulled out of the air the night before the bid is due.
A quote you can explain, line by line, is worth more than a quote that just sounds cheap.
How the pricing guidance got built
The tool didn't start as software. It started as a stack of real bid folders.
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Reviewed real bid templates and quote sheets
Before writing any pricing logic, we looked at how independent contractors actually structure a bid today — what a quote sheet includes, what gets left off, and where the numbers on real proposals tend to be guesses dressed up as calculations.
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Mapped the walkthrough questions that change a price
We built the list of questions worth asking a facilities manager before quoting — frequency, occupancy, floor types, restroom count, and anything with special handling — because each answer shifts the labor estimate and none of them show up on a floor plan alone.
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Built starting rate ranges by building type and frequency
Only once the variables were mapped did we translate square footage into a starting rate band per building type, adjustable for the frequency of service and the market a contractor is quoting in, rather than one flat rate per square foot for every kind of building.
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Packaged the logic into fillable bid templates
The questions and rate ranges became templates a contractor can fill out on-site during a walkthrough, so the quote gets built while the details are fresh instead of reconstructed from memory back at the office.
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Opened it to independent contractors instead of keeping it internal
What began as a private reference sheet became Cleanpricing once it was clear the same gap — no standard way to price office cleaning — was hitting every independent contractor we spoke with, not just one operation.
Ready to quote with more confidence?
Tell us about the kind of buildings and contracts you're bidding on, and we'll show you how the pricing guidance and templates apply to your next quote.