The questions to settle before accepting a grade-out lot.

A clearance-priced lot is only a good deal if it fits your use, your cold room and your calendar. Eight questions, in the order they come up.

The use
Juice, processing, ready-to-eat, foodservice or retail. The use sets what you tolerate: a forked carrot may suit some processing uses, depending on its condition and your specifications.
Tolerated specifications
Minimum and maximum size, accepted defects, washed or not, variety or not. Write them once: they filter the offers you receive.
Quantity and unit
The minimum worth a trip and the maximum you can absorb. Tonnes, bins or pallets, and whether you accept a split lot.
Receiving capacity
Available refrigerated space, dock, forklift, receiving days and hours. A lot that arrives on the wrong day costs more than a lot that cost more.
Timing
How soon you can pick up or receive, and how long you can hold the lot before using it.
Pickup or delivery
If you pick up yourself, with what truck and over what distance. Otherwise, who arranges transport and who pays for it: agreed at each offer.
Landed cost
Lot price, transport, sorting or washing labour, expected losses. The landed cost, not the lot price, tells you whether the offer is worth it.
Payment
Terms and payment delay, agreed in writing when the offer is accepted.

Downloadable briefs

Plain text files, readable anywhere. The completed example is fictional: it shows the useful level of detail and matches no real lot.

Describe your needs once; we pre-qualify you by phone and you receive the offers that match.