What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| pricing | Contractors' bid files; public procurement portals (TED, national e-procurement) publishing awarded cleaning tender values; benchmarking… | Per tender/contract award, or price per m² per month benchmark | public |
| registry/licensing/permits | Company registries, sector-specific registers (e.g. UK Gangmasters & Labour Abuse Authority, Belgian/Nordic cleaning-firm registers… | Per legal entity, with NACE code and status | public |
| employment & workforce | Contractors' HR/workforce-management systems, workforce-scheduling vendors, national statistics offices (labour force surveys by NACE… | Per employee shift; national/sector aggregates monthly or annual | public |
| reviews & sentiment | Employer-review platforms (Glassdoor, Indeed), Google Business profiles for local cleaning firms, B2B tender feedback | Per review, per company/location | public |
| incident/safety/claims | Labour inspectorates and OSHA-equivalents (occupational injury statistics by sector), workers' compensation insurers, contractors' EHS… | Per incident report; sector aggregates annually | public |
| waste & emissions | Waste collection contractors serving buildings, chemical suppliers' product safety/environmental disclosures, contractors' sustainability… | Per site per collection; corporate annual totals | public |
| financial filings | National business registries, listed FM groups' annual reports (ISS A/S, Sodexo, Rentokil), credit bureaus (Bureau van Dijk/Orbis… | Per entity per financial year | purchasable |
| customer demographics | Contractors' CRM systems, FM market research firms (Frost & Sullivan, Technavio, ISS market intelligence) | Per client account: sector, building type, floor area | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | Cleaning contractors (ISS, Sodexo, Atalian, OCS, regional SMEs), their ERP/invoicing systems, facility management platforms | Per contract line / per invoice per site per month | partnership |
| inventory & supply chain | Janitorial supply distributors (Bunzl, Veritiv, Nexeo), chemical manufacturers (Diversey, Ecolab), contractors' stockrooms | Per SKU per order / per site consumption per month | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Smart-washroom and footfall sensor vendors (Tork Vision/Essity, Kimberly-Clark, SCA, Infogrid, Disruptive Technologies), building owners | Per sensor per event / per hour per washroom or room | partnership |
| geospatial/movement | Workforce-management and mobile clock-in vendors (e.g. Quinyx, TEAM Software, Lighthouse), contractor operations teams | Per worker check-in/check-out per site, timestamped GPS/NFC scan | partnership |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Building owners and FM software vendors (Planon, Archibus, Spacewell), badge-access and occupancy analytics providers driving demand-based… | Per building/floor per day or hour | partnership |
| maintenance & asset condition | Contractors' equipment fleets (scrubber-dryers, vacuums) tracked by machine telematics from manufacturers (Tennant IRIS, Nilfisk, Kärcher… | Per machine per usage session | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Contractors' QA audit systems and third-party auditors; certification bodies (ISO 9001/14001, EN 13549 cleaning quality audits, Nordic… | Per site inspection per period, scored by room/area | partnership |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.