Request for Proposal - “Cost of Goods”

Full Cost of Goods for Animal Products

Deadline: September 1, 2024

Rationale

The purpose of this RFP is to determine potential avenues for influencing the price of animal products.

Inputs could include, for example, but are not limited to: (a) animal care (feed, housing, veterinary), (b) transportation, (c) slaughter and packaging facility operations, (d) government subsidies, (e) lobbying, and (f) advertising.

Goal

Proposals submitted under this RFP should scope and quantify the inputs and costs required to produce meat. Our preferred scope is chicken and top-consumed fish species in highly populous countries but could be narrowed to focus on, for example, one species or one economy.

Details

Successful proposals should follow an approach similar to the following:

• Determine the most compelling species and countries to analyze

• Scope the full range of material inputs

• Quantify the cost (percentage of total COGS) of each input per animal

• Assess the likely change or stability in cost of each input over the next ten years under two assumptions: 1) business as usual, 2) rapid reduction in demand

• Assess each input in terms of opportunity to influence (increase or decrease costs)

• Assess each input for the potential to be redirected to a different use, such as other food production

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