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Wm R. Griffin, President of Cleaning Consultant Services, Inc. in Seattle, WA, has over 25 years experience in the cleaning industry as a cleaner, consultant and educator. He is the author of the Comprehensive Custodial Training Manual, How to Sell and Price Contract Cleaning, How to Start and Operate a Successful Cleaning Business and other books and manuals, as well as hundreds of articles regarding cleaning, maintenance and self-employment.

He is a frequent speaker and seminar leader at cleaning industry trade shows and conventions throughout the world. He is certified by the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) as a Master Cleaner, and is an active carpet and hard surface-flooring inspector and approved IICRC instructor and school for carpet (CCT & CMT), stone (SMT) and hard floors (FCT).

Mr. Griffin has extensive experience as a consultant to government agencies, manufacturers, associations, and private businesses of all types and sizes through out the world. He began his cleaning career by helping the school custodian in high school and today is known as a walking encyclopedia of knowledge and information on cleaning, maintenance and self-employment.

Gary began his cleaning career in 1962, serving during high school as a hospital floor and carpet care technician. In 1967, he was trained by an industrial engineering group to conduct motion time studies. That experience has helped him in analyzing labor practices in the cleaning industry.

Starting in 1969, Gary entered into the chemical sales field, serving five years with Diversey and Ecolab as a territory manager. During that time he trained hundreds of cleaning personnel including state and county health inspectors and university students.

In 1974, Gary opened a janitorial supply store and began contract cleaning of office buildings, banks and factories. During the next twenty-eight years his company serviced schools, department stores, health clubs, daycares, hospitals, car dealerships, churches, industrial buildings and numerous office buildings. Service to several Fortune 500 companies included janitorial, carpet and floor care.

With years of business experience, Gary authored the Contractor Training and Certification Program. With this home study course, National Pro Clean Corp. has helped establish over three hundred new cleaning contractors in North America. Recently, Gary authored Cleaning Performance Handbook and contributed to Cleaning Management Software.

Jan Bid accurately calculates bid pricing for office cleaning - takes the guesswork and agony out of bidding.

An exclusive feature of Jan Bid is that you can instantly adjust the cleaning times for each and every building. Experienced contractors know that buildings are different, with individual cleaning needs and conditions. You will have three building survey forms, including a Cleaning Variable rating scale for seven major cleaning variables.

When you make your building walk-through, you simply fill out the forms. The scoring system asks for a rating of each item on a scale of either 1-30, 1-10 or 1-3. The total score for the Cleaning Variable survey is entered into the Jan Bid worksheet as a Difficulty Factor.

This 500+ page reference manual (New Revised Edition) is packed full of sound business advice to help you put together a winning proposal and a competitive bid for cleaning services. This book includes bid estimate sheets, time and production standards, supply usage charts, blank forms, job specifications, legal contracts, and markup tables for labor, products and supplies. This nuts and bolts guide is ideal for building owners, property managers and contract cleaners dealing with all types and sizes of properties.