What are the factors that define pricing?

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What are the factors that define pricing?

After three years of working as in-between animator, I am willing to start my own animation office.. Now I am on my way to sign a contract for 200 minutes long animation series.. But of course people that I am going to sign the contract with (the financers), want the exact costs for the animation per second, the costs for the characters design.. etc

On the other hand, to fulfill this project, I need to deal with freelancers in Syria for backgrounds, storyboard, layout, key frame and in-between animation, inking, compositing...etc

I have a general idea about the costs from my very short experience.. But to be sure, I want to know what are the factors that define the prices that I have to pay to the freelancers, and the factors that define the costs that the financers need to know..

By the way, the animation will be done by computer softwares.. And the level of the project difficulty (comparing to local levels) is the medium level..

Thank you all :)