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Eighteen months later the cheaper supplier has consumed the difference in replacement belts, a failed drive motor, and three weeks of a dead treadmill in the evening peak block. Total cost of ownership exists to prevent that outcome. Purchase price is only the first of eight cost lines a commercial facility pays over five years, and it is rarely the largest. When a tender scores on unit price alone, the ranking it produces is not a cost ranking — it is a discount ranking, and the gap is settled later out of operating budget.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A workable TCO model has eight lines: purchase unit price; freight and import duty; installation and commissioning; energy; preventive maintenance; wear parts and spare parts; downtime loss; and residual value at the end of year five. Only the first appears on the quotation. The last is often why a facility can justify paying more up front: a machine that still has service value and a parts supply at year five is not a sunk cost the way a discontinued model is. Build the model as one column per supplier and one row per cost line, so a low purchase price cannot hide inside the total.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>TCO structure differs by category. Treadmills and stair climbers concentrate cost in the drive system and running surface: motor and controller, belt, deck, and the shock-absorption elements that keep both the belt and the user's joints in service. Strength equipment behaves differently. On selectorized and plate-loaded lines such as HM1800, MZC or SA-SAX, recurring costs sit in cables, pulleys, guide rods, and upholstery on pads and seats, plus the labor to re-tension or replace them. 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