A university does not always buy the washers and dryers for its residence halls. Often it awards a concession, a contract for a provider to install and operate the machines and share the revenue. That makes a campus laundry award a different kind of deal than an equipment purchase.
What the RFP contains
A residence hall laundry concession RFP sets the number of machines across the halls, the payment system students use, the service and uptime the provider must hold, the revenue share or commission to the university, and the term, often multiyear. The provider owns and maintains the equipment.
What decides the award
A concession award turns on the revenue share offered, the service and uptime commitment, the payment technology, and the equipment provided, not a one time price. The agent flags the revenue terms, the service standard, the payment system, and the term so a provider bids the concession correctly.
How the agent handles it
Our agent reads each campus laundry RFP, tells a concession apart from an equipment purchase, and scores the concession for a route operator or provider against the revenue and service terms, surfacing the structure that an equipment only view would misread.
The agent reads the concession structure that makes a campus laundry award unlike an equipment sale. See the higher education and public housing laundry bid agent in the interactive demo.