Putting public holidays and shutdown weeks inside a Leichhardt cleaning scope

There are three sensible answers and the scope should pick one for each area. Skipping suits a premises that is genuinely closed, provided the annual price reflects the reduced number of services. Moving the visit to the adjacent day suits sites where the building is used either side and cannot go three days without attention. Attending on the day itself suits venues that trade on holidays, and it should be priced accordingly.

The important part is that the answer is written and the annual figure is consistent with it. A monthly price that quietly assumes the same number of visits every month will overstate holiday months. Ask bidders to state the number of annual services their price is based on. That single figure resolves most later confusion about whether a skipped holiday should have produced a credit.

A premises closed for a week or two is the only time in the year when floors can be stripped and sealed, carpets can dry properly, high-level work can be done without disruption and detailed amenity work can happen without interruption. Scheduling those items into the shutdown rather than fitting them around occupied trading is better for the result and usually easier to resource. It is also the period when a contractor can bring additional staff without disrupting anyone.

Write it into the annual programme with the shutdown dates named, and confirm them each year once the closure is set. It also gives you a clear answer to the question of what is being paid for during a closed period. Routine attendance stops, periodic work happens, and the annual figure reflects both. That is a far more comfortable conversation than an invoice arriving for a week when the doors were locked.

Retail and hospitality premises often work the opposite pattern, trading hardest on the days offices close. For those sites the scope should state holiday attendance as normal or enhanced rather than reduced, and it should say who confirms the trading calendar and by when. A month's notice of the holiday period arrangements is generally enough for a contractor to roster properly. Confirming the arrangement in writing each year takes one message and prevents a run of assumptions.

Community and education premises follow a third pattern again, with term dates and closure periods that bear no relation to public holidays. Whatever the pattern, the principle is the same: name the days, state the arrangement, and make sure the annual number of services in the quote matches. Vagueness here produces an annual argument that a single paragraph would have prevented. Attach the calendar to the scope as an appendix so it can be updated without reissuing the whole document.