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 EPC supplier-selection guide
For EPC offers, CAPEX is the contract price at the same battery limit for every bidder. Energy and maintenance inputs come from the equipment schedule and connected loads each contractor proposes — request them in the tender. Cross-check the LD rate against your own delay cost per week.
Capacity unit for EPC bids: total bird places across the complex (or thousand eggs set per week for a hatchery EPC).
Back to the EPC guideNormalised 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.