Janitorial Services & Grounds Cleaning

This specification describes the necessary labour, materials, equipment, vehicles and supervision required to perform the following work:

All staff are required to wear an identifiable uniform that will clearly show them as cleaning contractors.

The regular cleaning requirements during the main visitor season (7 May - 31 October) will consist of a seven day a week operation for the public areas as described in Section 2.0. The office areas will be cleaned five days a week on a continuous basis as described in Section 2.0.

Cleaning of Public Use Areas will be carried out after the fort is closed to the public. All areas must be ready for 0900 hours when the fort is opened for visitors. Office area cleaning can start after 1700 hours from 1 September to 14 June and 1800 hours from 15 June to 31 August.

As required services for cleaning specific rental and special event areas within the Citadel, form part of this specification and are described in Section 3.0.

Section 4.0 describes the scope of work for grounds cleaning and parade surface cleaning respectively. The contractor will supply a grounds cleaner 7 days a week during the visitor season (7 May to 31 October) from 0700 hours to 1530 hours. Included in the contract is an approved turf vehicle, tools and supplies to carry out grounds cleaning.

All garbage collected from regular and as required cleaning services and grounds and parade cleaning will be deposited in a dumpster supplied and emptied by the contractor. Parks Canada will have use of dumpster for regular garbage with the fee included in the contract. Recyclable and compost garbage will be collected separately as described in Section 2.0. Parks Canada will supply an area for the dumpster at the Ahern Avenue Site.