Cleaning Services
Tender Overview
About this tender
Overview Penrith City Council is calling for responses from suitably experienced and qualified contractors to provide cleaning services for community facilities within the Penrith Local Government Area (the Project), as further described in Attachment 3 of the RFT, the Contract Scope of Services. Scope The scope of services involves cleaning designated community facilities across four categories of service: Community Facilities, comprising Community Centres, Halls, Neighbourhood Centres, Youth Centres, and Senior's Centres Leisure Centres Childcare Facilities Libraries and the St Marys Queen Street Administration Building Tender Briefing Council will hold onsite and online briefing sessions for tenderers on 11 and 12 August 2026. Date: 11 and 12 August 2026 Format: Onsite and online sessions Registration deadline: Monday 10 August 2026 by 11.00am AEST Registration method: All registrations must be made through the Tendering System/Online Forum via the VendorPanel Forum When registering, tenderers must provide the business name, representative name, representative title, and representative contact number. Instructions to Tenderers All files can be accessed by the Google link noted in the main RFT document titled "PCC2425-47 - Cleaning Services - FINAL" and also in the Document Register.
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