Hi Carol,
For what it is worth, I run a similar facility at Umass Amherst and our
steering committee set the "outside" rate at 2x the Umass user rate. It
is a bit arbitrary and probably should be higher. A business gets no
duty-free instruments nor educational discounts on service contracts,
etc. We are pressured to be helpful to business and outside research but
with a staff of one (me) and heavily used instruments I mostly have to
decline requests for outside work. I just have a disclaimer on our
website that we don't intend to compete with business enterprises and
such businesses should notify us if they can provide equivalent
services; I have never been contacted.
Dale
Carol Norris wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We have an external user interested in using our laser scanning
> confocal, and we are trying to calculate how much to charge. We do not
> want to undercut commercial vendors, but I have been unable to locate
> any to use for comparison. If anyone knows of such a place, please let
> me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Carol
>
>
> Carol E. Norris, Ph.D
> Facility Scientist
> Flow Cytometry/Confocal Microscopy Facility
> Biotechnology/Bioservices Center
> University of Connecticut Unit 3149
> 91 N. Eagleville Rd
> Storrs, CT 06269-3149
>
> Phone (860) 486-3080
> Fax (860) 486-5005
>
>
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