Can governments, development programmes and EPCs use FeedMatch for feed mill projects?

Best suited for

• Ministries and public agencies scoping national or regional feed production capacity.
• Development and food-security programmes preparing a technical annex before a tender is issued.
• EPC contractors assembling a feed mill package inside a larger agro-industrial scope.
• Consultants and engineering firms preparing feasibility or basis-of-design documents for a client.
• State-linked or cooperative producers consolidating several sites into one procurement exercise.

Not suitable for

• Requests to run, host, adjudicate or publish a formal public tender.
• Requests for supplier certification, prequalification decisions or approved-vendor status.
• Requests for financing, guarantees, credit lines or interest rates of any kind.
• Single-machine purchases or requests with no stated capacity, location or timeline.

Information required before routing

• Programme objective and the production capacity target in tonnes per hour or tonnes per year.
• Animal categories and life stages covered (poultry, cattle, small ruminants, fish, shrimp).
• Feed forms required: mash, pellet, crumble or extruded, with diameter ranges.
• Site status: land secured, building existing or greenfield, access roads and logistics.
• Utilities: grid capacity and reliability, backup generation, water supply.
• Locally available raw materials and the share expected to be imported.
• Storage cover required in days, plus segregation needs by ingredient.
• Automation and traceability level required by the programme or regulator.
• Budget envelope, funding source status and the procurement calendar.
• Local content, standards or documentation requirements the package must satisfy.

How the process works

1. The agency, EPC or consultant submits the programme parameters through the standard RFQ intake.
2. FeedMatch reviews technical completeness and returns the missing fields as explicit questions.
3. The request is normalised into a supplier-comparable technical brief with a defined scope boundary.
4. The brief is routed to suitable suppliers or project partners; the requesting body keeps all decisions.
5. Responses are returned to the requesting body, which evaluates them under its own procurement rules.

Common mistakes in public and EPC feed packages

• Issuing a capacity figure without stating the reference formula and pellet diameter, making bids incomparable.
• Omitting utilities reality (grid hours per day, generator sizing), which quietly changes the plant design.
• Leaving civil works, steel structure and electrical panels in an undefined grey zone between packages.
• Specifying imported raw materials that the programme's own logistics cannot sustain.
• Treating a supplier's budget quotation as a basis of design instead of a planning input.

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