A UK contract analysis and matching service. We do not clean.
Clean Contracts UK is a commercial contract analysis and operator matching service. We work with facilities managers, office managers and operations directors across the UK to help them understand whether their existing cleaning contract is delivering fair value, and to introduce them to a vetted alternative if it is not. We do not operate cleaning crews, we do not employ cleaning staff, and we do not manage contracts on behalf of buyers. Our job is to analyse, assess and, where appropriate, introduce.
The contract that gets signed once and forgotten
Commercial cleaning is one of the most commonly outsourced FM services in the UK, and one of the least frequently reviewed. A contract is negotiated under pressure, signed, filed, and quietly renewed year after year without anyone checking whether the terms, pricing or service framework still reflect current market conditions. The cleaning company has every incentive to let this continue. The buyer rarely has the time or data to challenge it.
Across the 137 UK commercial cleaning contracts we have analysed to date, the average buyer on a contract older than 24 months is paying £4,200 per year above what a competitively tendered arrangement would cost them. In most cases, this is not the result of bad faith on the contractor's part. It is the compounding effect of price indexation clauses that run unchecked, scope reductions that are never formally documented, and benchmark reviews that were due but never happened. The money leaves slowly, invisibly, and with no single moment of decision that would prompt someone to act.
We built Clean Contracts UK to give facilities managers a way to audit their arrangement without engaging a consultant, sitting through a sales presentation, or committing to anything before they have seen the evidence. The scorecard takes three minutes, produces a written audit, and costs the buyer nothing. If the result warrants an introduction to a better matched operator, we make that introduction on the buyer's terms, with their explicit consent, and step back.
Evidence first, introduction only if wanted
The buyer journey begins and ends on the buyer's terms. A facilities manager who takes the scorecard and scores well in Tier 1 receives their written audit and hears nothing further from us unless they choose to re-engage at renewal time. There is no sales call, no follow-up from an account manager, and no pressure to act on a result they did not ask us to interpret for them.
Where the scorecard produces a Tier 3 or Tier 4 result and the buyer opts in at the final question, we hand-pick a single operator from our vetted panel. The match is made on the basis of region, building type, sector and the urgency indicated in the audit. We make the introduction by email, confirm both parties have received it, and step out of the conversation. We have no financial interest in the eventual contract value. The operator pays us for the qualified introduction, not for a percentage of what they earn from the buyer.
At 90 days before the buyer's renewal date, we re-engage to offer a fresh market benchmark. This applies whether or not the original introduction led anywhere. We keep the buyer informed about current market pricing for their contract type and region, once a year, at the moment it is most useful. Between that point and the next renewal cycle, we do not contact them unless they contact us.
Our principles
We hold ourselves to four operating principles, and we document them publicly because we think buyers and operators are right to ask.
Evidence over promises.
Every claim we make about contract drift, red flags and financial impact is grounded in data from the 137 contracts we have analysed. We do not use language like "best in class" or "market-leading" without a number behind it.
Consent always.
We do not share buyer details with operators without an explicit opt-in at the point of the scorecard. We do not assume that completing the scorecard constitutes consent to an introduction. Consent is a discrete question with a discrete answer.
No synchronous sales pressure.
We operate by email. We do not offer consultation calls, we do not run discovery sessions, and we do not follow up with calls from account managers. If a buyer wants to speak to someone, they can contact us in writing and we will reply in writing.
Transparency about AI.
We use artificial intelligence to analyse contracts faster and more consistently than a manual review process would allow. We are open about this. Our use of AI page explains what AI does in our workflow and what it does not do.
Our team
We are a UK team of analysts, compliance specialists and client support staff working with a vetted network of commercial cleaning operators across 10 major UK commercial markets, from London and Manchester to Glasgow and Bristol. Our analysts maintain the scoring framework that underpins the scorecard, update the red flag library as new contract patterns emerge, and review the written audit output for accuracy and consistency. Our operator network is maintained by a dedicated vetting process that checks insurance, references and regional capacity before any operator is approved to receive introductions.
We do not publish named team members on this site. That is a deliberate choice: the quality of the analysis and the introductions should stand independently of who specifically produced them.
Take the scorecard today
Three minutes. Free. No sales call. Find out exactly where your commercial cleaning contract stands.