Advance is a Registered Social Landlord providing accommodation to people predominantly with learning difficulties or mental health conditions.

Advance works on a national basis and provides services to properties from Nottinghamshire to the south coast of England, and Kent through to Cornwall.

Accommodation ranges from one bedroom flats through to shared housing typically accommodating three to four adults with some staff to support. There are also larger shared homes for eight or more residents where there might be staff cover on a 24hour basis. Some of these are Registered Care Homes. The purpose of this contract is to deliver cleaning services to the communal areas of Advance properties.

Further details of the properties can be found here hhttp://www.advanceuk.org/index.asp?m=2&s=9&t=key+facts.

At Advance's sole discretion separate contracts may be awarded for each combination of the contract areas or a contract covering all contract areas may be awarded to a single service provider. bidders may at their option tender for an individual area a combination of areas or all areas.