| Dials | Three savings, each an assumption the pilot centres test: ingredients 3% cheaper for circle members, utilities 10% cheaper, and delivery at a 25% group rate instead of the 30% list rate; 15% is the circles' target, not a saving the model counts (D.16). The ingredient saving is a lower cost of serving many small buyers, one pooled weekly order instead of many small ones, shared between supplier and cook; it is not taken out of anyone's profit (D.16; D.5.2). Three small costs in the operating budget, and no income: a part-time partnerships role, the open price board and its group-order templates, and $100 a month for each circle lead, four circles a centre at least and a lead for about every 30 stalls (D.16, the Budget Book, B.1). |
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| What it does | For a typical tendered stall, about $407 a month more profit from the three together: $4,878 a year before tax, and $4,791 a year in income and savings after tax. Added to price freedom, vouchers, the Corps and the Protection Floor, cheaper ingredients lift the rent a typical tendered hawker can pay before he earns less than his assistant from about $1,540 to about $1,780 a month, cheaper power to about $1,640 and cheaper delivery to about $1,610; at the 15% target, delivery alone would reach about $1,760 (D.16; D.4.1). |
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| What breaks first | Take-up. Operators' bulk buying has drawn few stallholders, because many keep their own suppliers or are particular about quality (the Record, A.1.2, D.16). The circles do not pay for themselves at three centres: the operating budget carries the Seed Bank's part, $206,580 over Years 0–3, with no member fee (D.16, the Budget Book, B.1). |
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| Where it stops | The Seed Bank never buys, stocks, sets prices or picks suppliers, and never takes title to goods or money; every hawker keeps his own supplier and recipe, and can leave a circle any week (D.16). The one toll the plan asks NEA to end is the tied supplier: no stallholder at an operator-run centre should have to buy gas or crockery from a supplier the operator chose (D.16). |
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| Fallback | Nothing is owned, so nothing is stranded: no warehouse, no stock and no designated supplier. If a saving does not show, the evaluator publishes it and that circle stops (D.16, the Plan, §6.4). |
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