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Implement a Comprehensive Commercial Bidding System

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How to Bid Commercial Lawn Mowing, Lawn care, and Lawn Maintenance

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To successfully secure commercial contracts, particularly those spanning 1 to 5 years, it is critical to implement a highly detailed and accurate bidding system. The speaker stresses that mistakes in bids for long-term contracts can lead to significant financial losses. He describes a comprehensive system (which he offers as a paid program on DirtMonkeyUniversity.com) that covers: calculating property size, converting size into production rates, transforming hourly production rates into monthly bid formats, allocating costs for specific services like sprinkler maintenance, strategies for upselling to increase profits, setting rates for mulch beds, tree and shrub care, calculating spring and fall clean-up costs, and bidding for chemical and fertilizer applications, as well as lot policing and general clean-up.

Goal: Develop accurate and profitable bids for commercial landscaping contracts

Tools and materials

  • Spreadsheet software — Performing complex calculations, structuring bids, and managing line items for commercial proposals

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to take over their account. Now, back to the show. And you're going to find that out of the blue, these property managers are going to start emailing you requests to bid their lawn maintenance and their lawn service on their commercial properties as they come as the contracts come up. You're not going to notice anything right away, but slowly these are going to come in. To bid these commercial properties requires due diligence. A lot of times commercial counts have a 1 2 3ear or even a 5year contract. So, you want to make sure you dot your eyes and cross your tees. By following this plan exactly, I was invited to bid over 38 million square feet of commercial space across 80 properties on a three-year contract. I had to create a rubber stamp system that I could use from boom, one property to the next property to the next property. But I had to know that every single thing was accounted for. It took me weeks of research to figure this out. I Googled things on the forums. I couldn't find anything. So, I finally created the system that I wished existed 5 or 10 years ago. This is a sevenstep program and I outline everything that you are going to find in an RFP, request for proposal. You're going to be able to pick and choose. So, when you get these requests for proposals from commercial accounts, you're going to say, "Hey, this line item is here, this line item is here, this one's not here, so I can take it completely out of the formula, but this one down here is in there." It's all very easy to follow, but highly detailed. The most detailed program that I have yet built. This is for you guys and gals out there to absolutely dominate and put yourselves on the exact same level as those big maintenance companies that are nationwide. These are the formulas they use. I interviewed the managers for those companies. Took me a long time to put this together. I worked with a team of people. You are going to find this is the absolute best program to teach you how to do commercial lawn maintenance. Hands down. You don't have to make a reservation. You don't have to drive anywhere. You don't have to sit in a lecture hall. You download it. It hits your computer and you're sticking that information in your brain that fast. So, let's recap. To get invited to bid the commercial accounts, you're going to create a letter. I'm giving that to you again right now. Boom. It's right here. You can use a letter like this, but put your own information in this letter head. You're going…

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