Tasking each location with overseeing its own snow removal, grass cutting and repairs can be inefficient, costly and unmanageable. While one site might opt to shovel its own sidewalks, increasing the chances for a slip and fall, another location might have trouble securing reliable lawn services. Centralizing these tasks can reduce your corporate risk while ensuring the same look is achieved across every location.

In terms of sheer numbers, let’s say a store needs eight services and is required to procure three bids for each service. Each location must source and vet 24 bids before it can start managing, scheduling and billing the chosen vendors. Multiply that for 10, 25 or 100 locations and the workload presents a burden for everyone involved. Even procurement teams can be overwhelmed by the bidding and vetting, verifying insurance and maintaining quality across so many sites and services.  

That’s why we believe that managing more than one contractor is too many.