How Would You Price This?

[TheCleaningDude]

Greeting Gents,

I'd like your feedback please.

Had a commercial bid fall in my lap today. This is a huge furniture wholesale gallery and they want the 'exposed' carpet cleaned. The showroom is loaded with staged furniture and they do not want the furniture moved.

Overall the carpet is not dirty at all. It's just spotted in places. They host parties for various retail buyers and there occasional drinks spilled, etc. and this is the concern.

The place measures a total of 13,326.5 sq. ft.
956 are admin and sales offices that will be cleaned fully.
The remainder is 12,370.5 sq. ft. of sporadic spots with maybe 35% (4,330 sq. ft.) 'exposed' at best.

At first she talked about cleaning the 'exposed' areas. Now she is suggesting spotting only. Spotting only does make sense, I cannot disagree with her thought process. Also, the place will most likely need to be vacuumed.

I'm thinking of putting the bid in with spotting and vaccing only (with the exception of the admin/sales office).

How would you price the spotting and vaccing? Hourly average? If so, how do I guesstimate this?

What machine am I best off using (My fear is over cleaning an area and having it not match up)?

Thanks!