Tender: Window Cleaning Services for University of Edinburgh Estate – Year‑Round Service for Listed and Modern Buildings

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The University of Edinburgh is seeking a supplier for window cleaning services across its large and diverse estate, covering historic listed buildings and modern facilities across multiple campus locations. The requirement is for a prompt, efficient and consistently high-quality service delivered year-round (52 weeks) with the ability to flex to changing priorities and significant peak demand; services include planned/programmed cleans delivered to agreed timescales and reactive/short-notice cleans requiring a same working day response to enquiries and a quotation and agreed delivery timescale within 24 hours. The predominant method is expected to be reach and wash, but bidders must demonstrate safe, compliant capability for alternative access methods such as rope access/abseiling and MEWPs; suppliers must work collaboratively with University representatives, minimise disruption in occupied buildings, provide sufficient staffing, vehicles and equipment for high-volume periods, obtain quality sign-off from the University’s nominated representative, and report any defects or accidental damage immediately in line with contract reporting procedures.