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McLemore Building Maintenance

Name: McLemore Building Maintenance
Address: 110 Fargo Street, Houston, TX, 77006, US
Telephone: +17135287775
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We provide janitorial, landscaping and high-rise window cleaning services. We have a very strong management team with an average of over 10+ years’ tenure.

Over 52 years of providing day and evening janitorial and related facility services have given us an in-depth understanding of client requirements across a multitude of facility environments. Through stringent training programs and consistent best practices, McLemore management and on-site teams deliver an unsurpassed level of integrity, quality, and cleanliness while reducing risk and providing maximum value to your bottom line. McLemore Building Maintenance was founded in 1970 and thanks to the dedication of our team who earn our clients’ business each and every day. As a family-owned and operated organization, our team has grown to include over 1,000 employees who provide janitorial/custodial and facility support services to clients throughout Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Colorado at over 850 locations. As a debt-free, privately-held company, McLemore has developed its business through long-term customer relationships combined with steady growth.

10/26/2026

Ask any procurement leader managing a multi-site janitorial contract what the hardest part of budgeting is, and it's rarely the base price. It's the invoice that shows up in month four with a line item nobody quoted.

A holiday coverage surcharge here. An "additional supply fee" there. None of it was in the original proposal, and none of it is large enough on its own to fight over, but it adds up to a number finance keeps asking you to explain.

Fixed monthly pricing means the rate you budgeted covers a defined scope for the contract term, across every site. It moves only through scope changes you approve or the escalation you agreed to at signing, so there's no quarterly call to explain a gap. That's worth more than a nicer number on the proposal.

If your current contract has more line items in month six than it had at signing, what you're really looking at is a slow renegotiation you never agreed to, dressed up as scope creep.

10/23/2026

A full RFP isn't the only way to buy competitively.

Cooperative purchasing works like this. A co-op runs one competitive procurement on behalf of its members. A vendor wins and holds the contract. Members can then buy from that contract instead of running their own solicitation.

The competition still happened. It just happened at the co-op level.

What it doesn't do is skip your governance. Joining a co-op usually takes board action, and using a contract still goes through your normal approval. State rules vary, and some districts have their own policies, so your purchasing counsel gets the final word.

For a cleaning contract, the practical difference is where you start. You review an existing, competitively awarded contract instead of building a scope and a solicitation from scratch.

McLemore holds contracts like this. If you're comparing paths, the useful question for any vendor is who awarded the contract, how, and what a new member has to do to use it.

Does your district use co-op contracts for services, or mostly for supplies?

10/21/2026

Who screened the person emptying the trash outside your classrooms?

Night crews work in buildings where kids spend the day. Your district already has rules about who can be around students. Fewer districts can answer three questions about their cleaning contractor's crew:

Who ran the background check, and when?

Who employs that person: the contractor, or a staffing agency one step removed?

If a board member or a parent asks, can you verify it today?

The third one matters most. "Everyone is screened" is a statement. A record you can request and read is verification.

Requirements vary by state and by district, so start with your own policy. Then check whether your contract lets you see how it's being met.

When the crew are the vendor's own direct employees, there is one employer and one set of records to ask for. With layers of staffing agencies, there are more places for a gap to hide.

What does your current contract say about verification?

10/19/2026

The stands empty out around 10. First bell is at 7:30.

Picture a Friday night at your campus. The lot clears, the lights go off, and the building is still full of the evening: concession trash, wet restrooms, locker rooms, hallways.

Nobody in the stands thinks about what happens next. You do.

Games, concerts, board meetings, community rentals. Evening events pile up across a school year, and each one hands the building back to someone who has to get it ready for kids.

A few things worth asking your cleaning provider:

Who owns the building after the last person leaves?

Is the crew working the event the same crew that knows your hallways?

If someone calls out at 6 PM, who covers the shift?

Is there a supervisor who knows your building and picks up the phone?

You shouldn't be learning the answers at 6:45 am on the next school day.

How does your team handle the morning after a big event?

10/16/2026

“My facilities budget has been wrong three quarters in a row.”

Facilities leaders say some version of this all the time. The base contract usually is not the problem. It is everything billed around it.

An after-hours charge you did not expect. Supply costs that change without warning. Periodic floor work you thought was included but now requires a separate quote.

None of those charges look significant on their own. By the end of the quarter, you are explaining another variance to finance.

Vendors tend to underestimate how much that matters. When your budget holds, you have room to plan. When it keeps missing, every future request gets more scrutiny.

Fixed pricing should be boring. The scope is clear, the included work is clear, and you know what will trigger an additional charge before it happens.

If you keep reforecasting a service that should be predictable, compare your original scope with your last three invoices. The answer is probably there.

10/14/2026

“I’m done being sold to and under-delivered.”

A sourcing leader opened a call with that line. Fair enough.

A sales presentation can make almost any provider sound capable. The better measure is what happens after the contract is signed.

Are issues documented and resolved? Do invoices match the agreed scope? Do site managers know who to call? Does sourcing hear about problems before they become escalations?

By renewal, there should be very little left to uncover. You should already know how the contract is performing and where improvements are needed.

That may sound like a boring outcome. It also gives you time back for the categories that genuinely need your attention.

If janitorial is taking up more of your week than it should, it is worth finding out why.

10/12/2026

“One incident and it’s my name on the report.”

A safety manager said that about a janitorial crew working nights in his facility. He was responsible for their safety performance, but he had never met them.

Ask who conducts the safety talks for your janitorial team.

If nobody can give you a clear answer, your safety program may effectively end when the day shift leaves.

Initial training is not enough. People need reminders. New hazards need to be discussed. Shortcuts need to be corrected before they become routine.

At McLemore, our supervisors conduct and document those conversations with the crew. They also take responsibility for making sure the standards are followed after hours.

Who is doing that for your night crew?

10/09/2026

“Unvetted people on my floor are my liability, not theirs.”

A compliance leader at a pharmaceutical distribution facility said that, and his concern was straightforward. If something goes wrong, his company has to explain who was in the building and whether that person was authorized to be there.

Subcontracting can make that harder to verify.

The facility hires a janitorial company. That company hires another company to staff the work. Now background checks, training records, and badge approvals may sit with different employers.

That does not mean subcontracted workers are automatically unqualified. It does mean the customer has another layer to work through when documentation is needed.

In a controlled environment, “we assumed they were vetted” is not a useful answer. Restricted areas, regulated products, and badge access require a clear record of who entered the facility and what training they completed.

Everyone working on our accounts is a McLemore W-2 employee. We handle the screening, training, supervision, and documentation ourselves.

You may not know every person working in your facility overnight, but your provider should be able to verify exactly who they are.

10/07/2026

“I know they’re bad. I just can’t face another switch.”

I understand why facilities leaders feel that way.

They remember the last changeover. The new crew did not know the building. Site managers called every day. For the first month, it felt like they had traded one set of problems for another.

Staying with the current provider is frustrating. Starting over sounds exhausting.

A lot of transition problems can be prevented before the first shift.

Walk the site with the customer’s team and document the details only they would know. Build the cleaning plan around how the facility actually operates. Complete training and badging before startup. Introduce the supervisor early so every site lead knows who to call.

Then stay close to the account during the first month. Problems will come up. The difference is whether someone addresses them quickly or leaves the customer to sort them out.

This preparation takes time before the contract starts, which is exactly why some providers rush through it.

We take it seriously because a poorly managed first month can damage an account before the cleaning program has a chance to work.

If you know it is time to make a change, ask each bidder to walk you through the transition before you ask about anything else.

10/05/2026

"The side door was propped open again."

That's not just a custodial issue at a school. It's a security issue.

Maybe someone on the night crew wanted a quicker route to the dumpster. Maybe the door was supposed to be reopened for one trip and secured afterward.

But morning comes, students begin arriving, and a shortcut taken hours earlier becomes the district's responsibility.

The same is true of chemicals left unsecured, wet floors that were never reported, or classroom doors that weren't locked when the crew finished.

These are small decisions. Until they aren't.

Nighttime custodial work needs more than people assigned to a building. It needs supervision: someone responsible for checking the work, correcting unsafe habits, and confirming the campus is secure before the crew leaves.

If your district's morning staff are routinely discovering what the night crew missed, the problem isn't just cleaning quality.

It's accountability.

Address

110 Fargo Street
Houston, TX
77006

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+17135287775

Website

http://www.mbminc.com/

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