An Australian facilities journal
Est. 2004 · Australia
Commercial CleanersWorkplace hygiene, contracts and practice for Australian facilitiesIndependent writing for facility managers, contractors and the people who still have to clean the building on Monday.
Buying
How facilities teams specify, tender, measure and live with a cleaning contract. Specifications, SLAs, KPIs and the difference between a cheap price and a cheap outcome.
Response times, rectification, credits versus termination, force majeure after storms, indexation, and labour-hour floors. An SLA is a bargain you can inspect, not a scorecard from a software demo.
Tom Bradley · 22 July 2025
One national contractor versus regional firms, Award and travel differences, building managers who do not share a standard, dashboards that flatter the average, and quarterly reviews that still look at rooms.
Tom Bradley · 10 June 2025
Award labour, supervision, equipment capital, industrial relations and hybrid models decide the choice. A university hospital is not a CBD tower, and the cheaper quote is not a strategy.
Tom Bradley · 25 March 2025
Inspection scores, complaint volume, attendance, washroom run-outs and rework rates tell you whether a contract is staffed. Looks-clean is a mood. This is how to measure the work without teaching everyone to game the audit.
Tom Bradley · 28 January 2025
Expression of interest versus RFT, site inspections that actually happen, labour hours against square metres, CAF and modern slavery questions, transition, and why the cheapest conforming bid is often the most expensive story you will buy.
Tom Bradley · 19 November 2024