Janitorial Services

The vendor is required to provide janitorial services for agency location.
- Strategic plan or strategic directions or strategic goals
1. First choice service
• Increase overall student satisfaction from 69% in 2017 to 75% by 2021.
• Increase student engagement with student support services from a score of 48.6 to 52 by 2025.
2. Workforce and community engagement
• Infuse work-based learning and community-based learning in 100% of associate degree and technical diploma programs by 2025.
• Implement a comprehensive workforce sector development strategy by 2025.
3. Equity, inclusion, and support
• Eliminate course completion, retention, and graduation achievement gaps between black, Hispanic and Latino, and native american students and white students by 2025.
• Increase enrollment of program-declared students of color from 12.82% in 2018 to 15% in 2025.
4. Employee engagement
• Increase engaged employees from 35% in 2017 to 45% by 2025.  - Occupancy of structures to be cleaned:
• Structures to be cleaned will be vacated generally by 6 p.m. daily, prior to the start of cleaning work.
• Outside organizations and others utilize the district’s premises from time to time after completion of the contractor’s work period on Friday.
• Such cleaning as may be required prior to the reopening of the buildings on Monday may be negotiated with the contractor.
- Baseline cleaning program:
• Included in this scope of work are baseline cleaning programs for each of the facilities
• The baseline cleaning programs are not an all-inclusive list of tasks included in the contract.
• The general rule of thumb is, “if it is dirty, clean it.”
- Safety:
• Report any unsafe conditions, temperature extremes, strange odors, or leaks immediately to security at 608- 785-9191. if it doesn’t feel right, report it. if you see something, say something.
- Waste disposal:
• Rubbish in all buildings must be separated by type.
• Commingled (mixed) recycling will be emptied into recycling dumpsters.
• All other rubbish collected by the contractor or resulting from their operations must be placed in standard dumpsters.
• Interior waste receptacles are to be returned to their rightful location after emptying.
• Western will provide trash bags/liners for garbage cans.
• No personal dumping is permitted.
- Pollution controls:
• Contractor to comply with all governing regulations
• Agency is tobacco free on all of its district properties.
• It is expected that contractor employees will abide by the tobacco free policy.
• No cigarettes, cigars, vaping devices, or chewing tobacco are permitted.
- Storage of cleaning materials/equipment:
• Rooms will be provided within each building for the storage of cleaning supplies, chemicals, equipment, etc. used by the contractor.
• At no time are elevators, elevator equipment rooms, or mechanical rooms to be used for this purpose.
- Protections of structures/facilities:
• Conduct cleaning operations in a manner that will prevent damage by cleaning chemicals, procedures, etc. or other causes of damage to existing structures and other existing facilities.
• Use personal protective equipment when necessary.
• Two weeks’ notice is required for specialized cleaning (carpet shampooing, floor stripping) that may affect occupancy of the building being served.
- Communication log:
• Proposer must provide a daily communication log that is available for western and contractor employees to use.
• Please describe how this will be accomplished.
- Absence coverage availability
• Proposer must provide information on their ability to staff absences for western housekeeping and custodial employees when those absences are for greater than three (3) working days.
- Contract Period/Term: 5 years