Two Ways the Work Is Priced
Which one applies comes down to how often you want a team on your site — a question that is settled with you before anything is quoted.
A Flat Rate Per Visit
One agreed figure for one visit to one site, with the areas in scope fixed in writing before the team arrives. This is how a one-time sweep is priced: a specific concern, a date-bound event, a building going back into occupancy.
It is also how a first visit is priced if you would rather judge the work before setting any kind of schedule.
A Monthly Rate on a Standing Schedule
One monthly figure covering an agreed number of visits on a schedule set in advance — scheduled, unannounced, or a mix of the two, with the rule for who is notified and when written down beside the rate.
What a schedule buys that a single visit cannot is the standing possibility of an unannounced sweep. That is a property of the schedule rather than of any one visit, which is why frequency is the first thing to settle and the first thing we will ask about.
Four Inputs Decide the Number
Under either structure the same four things set what a visit costs. Three of them are decisions you make; the fourth is geography.
The Size of the Site
Square footage, the number of buildings, the number of floors. A single building and a multi-site campus are different jobs before anything else about either is decided, and this is the figure the other three are measured against.
What Is in Scope
Lockers only, or lockers plus vehicles, common areas and grounds. Scope is agreed at the walkthrough and written into the quote, because a scope in writing is the difference between a price you can hold us to and an estimate.
How Often
A single visit, a quarterly schedule, or a weekly standing visit. Frequency decides which of the two structures applies, and it is the one input that multiplies — it is what turns a rate into an annual figure. Size and scope are settled once; frequency is settled again every time a team comes back.
Where the Site Is
K9IDS is based in California’s Central Valley and works across the entire United States, so distance is a real input rather than a footnote — the further a team travels, the more of the engagement is travel. Work far enough out is booked as a two-day minimum engagement. We publish no mileage cutoff for it: tell us where the site is and we will tell you which side of that line it falls on when we quote, rather than leaving you to guess it off a map.
Building the Line Item Yourself
If a figure has to exist in a budget before the conversation can start, here is the arithmetic. It is short.
Both structures quote a flat figure — one rate per visit, or one rate per month. An annual line is therefore visits per year times the rate, and under a standing schedule it is the monthly rate times twelve with the visit count already fixed inside it. There is no third component to go looking for.
So the number you need from us is one number, and the number you need from yourself is how many times a year you want a team on your site. Settle that first. It is the input you control outright, it sets the annual figure, and it decides which of the two structures you are pricing at all.
One thing sits outside that arithmetic: the walkthrough that fixes the scope is not billed. It happens on site, or over a map or floor plan when your site is a long way from us, and it is what makes the rate that follows a real one.
We do not publish a rate card, and it is worth being direct about why. Any published figure has to assume a site size, a scope and a frequency; every buyer whose site is not the assumed one would be reading a number that does not apply to them, and a number that does not apply is worse than no number. What takes its place is the thing a rate card is a poor substitute for anyway — a written scope and price, carrying the areas covered, the visit frequency, the duration and the rate, before anything is signed.
What We Need in Order to Price It
Six facts. With them, a written scope and price is a short job. Without them, anything we told you would be a guess with a number on it.
| The Site | Square footage or a building count, how many floors, and whether it is one address or several. |
|---|---|
| Areas in Scope | What you want covered — lockers, vehicles, parking areas, interior common areas, grounds, storage. Anything you want left alone counts too. |
| Frequency | A single visit, or a standing schedule — and if a schedule, how often, and whether visits should be scheduled, unannounced, or a mix. |
| Location | City and state. It is what decides the travel involved, and whether a two-day minimum engagement applies. |
| Timing | The date or window you have in mind, and the hours your site can accommodate a team. Visits are booked 24 hours a day, by appointment, so name the hour that suits the site. |
| Point of Contact | Who designates the areas, who is told on the spot if the dog signals on something, and who receives the written record afterward. |
If some of these are not settled at your end yet, the walkthrough is where they get fixed. But nothing can be priced without at least an approximation of all six.
If the visit itself is the urgent part, call (559) 507-2076 rather than writing — lead time is under six hours, depending on distance.
Get a Number for Your Own Site
Tell us the size, the areas, and how often. What comes back is a written scope and a price — not a range.