<div dir="ltr">Good Morning Dennis:<div> At Penn, I am on my third cleaning service in nine years and finally successful.</div><div>Back in 2021, I was given the okay by Meredith Metzler to buy our own garments. We spent</div><div>approximately $54,000.00 to buy 3 times the required garments to meet demands of 150 users.</div><div>Owning our garments, we no longer had to deal with contract conditions forced upon us by the</div><div>cleaners. These conditions are all negative for trying to keep costs under control. (i.e. Damaged</div><div>Garment Charges and how often to do laundry).</div><div> Also, Our garments are washed alone with no other firms included in the cleaning or drying</div><div>process. This is a big change that ensures there is no cross contamination with other firms </div><div>garments.</div><div> Invoice from 8/11/2023 was $444.22, which is an every other week cleaning. If big semi</div><div>is having their suits cleaned every other, why do we need it every week?</div><div> Here is the break down from on Prudential Cleaning Service Invoice</div><div> Quantity of Coveralls 169</div><div> Quantity of Boots 388</div><div> Quantity of Hoods 238 </div><div> Frocks 8</div><div> Total 808</div><div> Cost $444.11</div><div> Twice a month charge to pay off initial suit purchase $500</div><div> Total cost $944.11</div><div> Maximum cleaning per year 26. So maximum cost</div><div> for cleaning on a yearly basis is and we own our garments</div><div> at the end $24,546.86</div><div> </div><div> </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 10:23 PM Dennis Schweiger <<a href="mailto:schweig@umich.edu">schweig@umich.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Good afternoon all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Here at the University of Michigan/LNF we've been using launderable garments for many years (Cintas is the provider). We've had mostly good success, and our vendor has helped us to incorporate a simple suit modification to allow for better identification of individuals when they are in full garb. As part of our due diligence for keeping costs under control, we'd be interested in comparing notes with other Universities that are also using an outside company to provide your laundry service. Currently our laundry costs run us about $52K/year and we're laundering roughly 500 pieces of clothing every week.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Thank you,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div>Dennis<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Schweiger</span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">University of Michigan/LNF</span></div><div> </div><div>734.647.2055 Ofc</div><div> </div><div>"People can be divided into 3 groups - those that make things happen, those that watch things happen, and those that wonder what happened." Within which group do you belong?</div></div></div></div>
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