Each Contractor should understand that it is the intent of this RFP that the Custodial Services shall be performed year-round at all Facilities listed in this RFP and the Contract. The Contractor will be responsible for selection, evaluation, training, compensation, and retention of its personnel and employees, including all labor, supervision, record keeping and management, necessary to clean and maintain the Facilities in accordance with this RFP and the Contract and applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. Generally, the “Custodial Services” encompass and include the following: All janitorial services necessary to clean and sanitize all spaces of the School District’s Facilities in accordance with this RFP, the School District requirements and industry standards. Responsibility to clean maintain, provide set ups and tear downs, and related services the Facilities and occupants of the Facilities. Perform minor maintenance at each Facility, which generally includes those maintenance duties that do not require licensed or skilled tradespersons and can be completed with the use of ladders, hand tools (powered or manual) and equipment. Perform snow removal from, and salt/ice melt application to, the entrance areas, sidewalks and areas adjacent thereto each Facility. This generally includes those duties that required power and manual removal equipment. This would also include any and all Emergency Exits around the Facility. Effective communication with the School District including, but not limited to, the School District administration and Board of Education building administrators, teachers and students. All duties and tasks set forth in the Attachments to this RFP, which are incorporated herein by reference, as well as those set forth in the Contract (as described in Section III of this RFP). These shall include both daily cleaning and summer cleaning programs. Assisting the School District with accepting deliveries and assisting with routine moving of School District property within the Facilities, as requested by the School District, to accommodate scheduled functions at the Facility. In addition to these general specifications, a detailed scope of Custodial Services and other obligations of the Contractor are set forth in the remainder of this RFP, the Attachments of this RFP which are incorporated herein by reference, and the Contract (as described in Section III of this RFP) (collectively the “Services”). It is the intent of these specifications that the Facilities are kept neat, clean, safe and in a condition that enhances the School District’s educational environment at all times. These specifications should, therefore, be referred to as a minimum guide for, rather than a limitation to, the Contractor to clean, maintain, service and safeguard the Facilities.
