For facilities & maintenance contractors

Thin margins don’t forgive the wrong contract.


You tender constantly and you win on price. But a mispriced schedule, a rise-and-fall clause, or an onerous KPI regime turns a contract you won into three years of quiet losses — and you rarely see it until the margin is already gone.

What makes recurring tenders a trap

The contract that loses money slowly is the one you never re-read.

Volume

Dozens of tenders a month, and no time to read each one in full. The ones that matter look like the ones that do not.

Margin traps

Pricing schedules and rise-and-fall clauses that erode a thin margin one line item at a time.

Abatement regimes

Service-level penalties that decide profit far more than the headline rate ever does.

The three axes, tuned for recurring services

Profitable at the rate, or not.

selrob reads the specification, the pricing schedule and the KPI regime together, then tests them against your operation.

Strategy

Is this site, region and scope one you can service efficiently from your existing base?

Capacity

Labour, mobilisation and coverage against the response times the contract demands.

Risk

Abatement regimes, rise-and-fall, and the exposure hidden in the pricing schedule.

Tender
Fit
Capacity
Risk
Call
Regional schools cleaning — 3yr
84%
Routes efficient
Standard KPIs
Bid
CBD tower FM — response SLA
37%
Mobilisation gap
Heavy abatement
No-bid
Hospital grounds & maintenance
63%
Labour tight
Rise-and-fall unclear
Review

One tender, in full

A price you set knowing what the schedule really costs.

Not just a score. selrob names the abatement clause, the coverage gap, and the line items where the pricing schedule hides its exposure. You bid the contracts that make money and pass the ones that bleed it.

Fit assessment
Recurring services · 3-year term
Strategy
Dense in existing region
78
Capacity
Night-shift coverage short
1 gap
Risk
Abatement at 8% of monthly fee
1 clause
Recommend: bid, price the abatement risk.
Dozens a month
Read in full, not skimmed
Every schedule
Priced and checked
Abatement
Regimes surfaced before you sign

Bring the contract that has quietly lost money for a year.

A 30-minute call. We’ll run it through selrob and show you the call it would have made.