Total cost of ownership

Poultry Bid Lifecycle Cost Calculator

The cheapest quotation is rarely the cheapest house to run. Enter up to three bids with their CAPEX, energy draw, maintenance budget, spare-parts allowance and lead time, and this tool restates each one as a total cost of ownership over your chosen horizon — normalised per bird place and per bird place per year.

Shared assumptions

Use one currency throughout. Escalation applies to energy, maintenance and spares; the discount rate is used only for the present-value row.

Arriving from the broiler supplier-selection guide

For each broiler bid, enter the quoted CAPEX, total bird places and the kWh per bird place per year the supplier stated for your design dry-bulb and wet-bulb. Maintenance % of CAPEX and the priced spares list come straight from the RFQ responses; lead time is the delivered date in weeks.

Capacity unit for broiler bids: total bird places (birds per house × houses in this phase).

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Normalised lifecycle comparison

Enter at least a quoted CAPEX to see the 10-year view.

Indicative planning aid only. The figures are your own inputs restated on a common basis; they are not quotations, valuations, energy audits or engineering advice, and the tool does not recommend a supplier. HatchMatch is an independent procurement platform and is not a manufacturer, EPC contractor or lender.

What to ask each bidder for

  • Connected load per house and expected annual kWh per bird place at your design conditions.
  • Recommended annual maintenance budget, stated as a percentage of equipment value or an absolute figure.
  • A priced first-year and steady-state spare-parts list, not just a promise of availability.
  • Ex-works and delivered lead time in weeks, with the milestone each date is measured from.
  • Expected service life and replacement interval for fans, pads, heaters, motors and controllers.
  • Whether efficiency figures are measured at working static pressure or at free air.

Lifecycle cost questions

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