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For cleaning, catering and facilities services

More public sector contracts. Less paperwork.

Jonty finds the public sector cleaning, catering and facilities contracts that fit your business, reads the tender pack, writes the bid with you and submits it once you approve.

For cleaning, catering and facilities management firms who serve councils, schools, the NHS and other public buyers, or want to.

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Read what the film says

An 86-second film. A voice speaks over footage of cleaning, catering and facilities teams at work, then over Jonty’s screens, which follow one contract from the day Jonty spots it to the day it is submitted. The voice is quoted. The other words on screen are listed under it.

  1. No one speaks for the first 5 seconds; you hear the sounds of the work. A steel trolley rolls along a corridor past feet in blue shoe covers, a man presses a button on a plant-room control panel, and a cook stirs a big steaming pot.

    • 05:30 · Outpatients
    • 06:15 · Plant room
    • 07:00 · School kitchen

  2. Gloved hands set out food on rows of small plates under hanging lamps. Then a cleaner in a white protective suit wipes a treatment couch in a curtained bay, and the shot slows and darkens behind a fact card.

    Before the doors open, your teams are already in.

    And it’s work the public sector pays for, every year.

    • Councils · Academy trusts · The NHS
    • NHS trusts in England, 2025/26
    • More than £1.5bn on cleaning.
    • About £800m on patient food.
    • Source: NHS England, ERIC 2025/26

  3. In the evening, a person writes with a pencil at a lamp-lit desk, with a glass of water beside them. Paper sheets land one by one over the picture: three documents, then three bid questions from different tenders.

    But the next contract is won after the shift.

    The school contract you wanted closed last week.

    The next one wants a TUPE plan, a mobilisation plan and social value.

    The price, you can work out. It’s the method statements that take your evenings.

    • 21:10 · After service
    • TUPE staff list
    • Mobilisation plan
    • Social value
    • Q3.1 · NHS hotel services
    • Cleaning method for FR1 areas
    • Q2.4 · Academy trust
    • Meeting the School Food Standards
    • Q5.2 · Council estate
    • PPM regime to SFG20

  4. An orange dot drops onto the top sheet, the sheets slide away, and the Jonty wordmark appears on a cream screen, with the dot as its full stop and “Bid Manager” under it. Then the dot becomes a glowing orange orb, and a company profile card fills in beside it.

    Meet Jonty Bid Manager.

    Tell it what you do.

    • On a call with Jonty
    • Marlcote Services Ltd
    • Cleaning · Catering · Hard FM
    • Schools and NHS · Yorkshire

  5. On Jonty’s screens, a pre-tender card shows a catering and cleaning contract coming back to market, and the orange dot ticks its expected tender date. Then the sources Jonty reads are ticked off, two results from a plain keyword alert are struck out, and an email notice opens into a match card for the same contract.

    It spots contracts coming back to market, often months before the tender.

    Then it emails you the ones that fit.

    • Spot it early
    • Pre-tender
    • Catering and Cleaning Services
    • Brackenmoor Learning Trust · £7.2m
    • Tender expected in January
    • Contract starts 1 September
    • Find
    • Sources Jonty reads
    • Find a Tender
    • Contracts Finder
    • Public Contracts Scotland
    • EU-Supply
    • TED (EU)
    • Keyword alert: cleaning
    • Endoscope cleaning machines
    • Supply of cleaning chemicals
    • Jonty · New match: Catering and Cleaning Services
    • January
    • Tender
    • Find a Tender
    • 3 + 2 years · Starts 1 September
    • 8 schools, all in your area.
    • Match: 92/100

  6. The tender pack’s 11 documents appear as pages, then fold into one line. Three pass-or-fail checks get ticks, and a verdict appears beside them.

    It reads the pack, checks the hard rules, and says: bid, or pass.

    • Qualify
    • Tender pack · Catering and Cleaning Services
    • Invitation to tender
    • Specification: catering
    • Specification: cleaning
    • Site list and floor areas
    • TUPE staff list
    • Pricing schedule
    • Current menu cycle
    • Procurement Specific Questionnaire
    • Quality questions
    • Social value
    • Contract terms
    • 11 documents read
    • Hard gates · pass/fail
    • Public liability £10m
    • Verified · Insurance schedule
    • Enhanced DBS checks
    • Verified · Safer recruitment policy
    • Food hygiene rating 4 or 5
    • Verified · Kitchen ratings
    • 3 of 3 cleared
    • Checked against your Vault
    • In your favour
    • Bid
    • Three similar school contracts.

  7. A draft answer fills in on a card. Its first sentence gets a source tag, and the next line has a pale yellow gap for the bidder to fill.

    It drafts your TUPE and mobilisation answers from past bids, and leaves a gap where proof is missing.

    • Write
    • Q4.2 · Draft answer
    • Mobilisation and TUPE
    • We meet transferring staff before day one.
    • Source: Past bid, p.9
    • Mobilisation manager: [Add: name]
    • 1 gap to fill

  8. An approval card waits for the bidder. A cursor labelled “You” clicks Approve, the orange dot runs along a progress bar, and a tick appears.

    Nothing goes to a buyer without your OK.

    • Submit
    • Submit response to Brackenmoor Learning Trust?
    • Nothing changes until you approve this.
    • Approve
    • Dismiss
    • You
    • Submitting on the buyer’s portal
    • Submitted

  9. Back to the work: a cook in a white hat, mask and apron stirs a big pot with a long paddle, then a woman lifts white linen from a wire cart in a laundry. The film ends on the Jonty wordmark with its orange dot, “Bid Manager” under it, and a dark button with the last spoken line on it.

    Jonty does the paperwork. You do the work.

    Your team stays on the contracts you already run.

    Get Bid Manager at askjonty.ai.

    • Questions? Book a call.
    • Illustrative screens. The buyers and figures on them are fictional.

Sound familiar?

Service contracts are won on the detail. Writing that detail down, bid after bid, is what wears people out.

  • “The school contract we wanted closed last week.”

    Cleaning and catering contracts are published across national and regional portals, often with short windows. Miss one and it may not come back for years.

  • “They want a TUPE plan, a mobilisation plan and social value.”

    Service contracts come with their own questions: for the current staff, for day one, and the you'll bring. Each answer is scored, and each one takes hours.

  • “Pricing it is the easy bit. It's the method statements.”

    Quality often carries as much weight as price. Explaining how you'll clean a ward or run a school kitchen, in the buyer's own terms, is where the evenings go.

  • “We've got the certificates somewhere.”

    Insurance schedules, policies and accreditations live in different folders. Finding the right version for every questionnaire slows every bid down.

How Jonty handles it

The same steps for every contract. Jonty does the slow parts. You make the calls.

  1. 1. Spot it early

    Jonty tracks contracts coming back to market, often months before the tender, and tells you who buys what.

    In Scout and Bid Manager

  2. 2. Find

    Tell Jonty what you do in a short chat or call. It watches public sector sources across the UK and the EU and emails you the contracts that fit. No keyword lists.

    In Scout and Bid Manager

  3. 3. Qualify

    Jonty reads every page of the and checks the hard rules first, like insurance levels, policies and certificates, against your . Then it tells you to bid or pass, and shows the page behind each reason.

    In Bid Manager

  4. 4. Write

    Jonty drafts each answer, from method statements to social value, from your past bids and evidence. It leaves out anything it can't back up, and your bid library grows with every bid.

    In Bid Manager

  5. 5. Submit

    You approve the bid. Jonty then fills in the buyer's portal and submits it for you. Nothing goes to a buyer without your OK.

    In Bid Manager

  6. 6. Frameworks too

    Jonty tells you whether are worth joining, gathers what you need, and fills in and submits the application once you approve. When you're on one, Jonty brings you its .

    In Bid Manager

Proof

Where Jonty looks, how long it takes to set up, and the programmes it is part of.

Sources Jonty reads
Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland, EU-Supply, TED (EU)
Set-up
7 minutes: a short chat or call with Jonty, no long forms.
Part of
NVIDIA Inception, Adopt 100 (Deloitte × NVIDIA), Cambridge Judge Business School

Jonty does the paperwork. You do the work.

Bid Manager finds the contracts, reads the packs, writes the bids with you and submits them once you approve. Your team stays on the contracts you already run.

Get Bid Manager