Pricing

Typical Fees

• These are basic prices for simple analyses; many analyses may have significantly different costs.
• Turnaround times can range from as little as a few days (with prior scheduling), up to several weeks depending on workload and complexity of sample preparation or instrument setup required.
• The prices presented here assume average sample suites; large compound specific suites may be eligible for a price reduction; small or unusual suites may have additional setup/teardown costs associated.
• Fees are derived from the 2013 official rate of $78 per hour of instrument or operator time.
• Please contact the Facility Manager with the specifics of your samples for a cost proposal and current scheduling.

Charging Protocol

• WHOI Users:

Monthly charges are made to PI’s accounts as work is completed

• Non-WHOI Users:

The Facility Manager will have a brief proposal sent to the user. The user then has their home institution provide a purchase order or credit card authorization to WHOI for the work to be done. Once the Facility Manger has completed the work, WHOI issues an invoice against the purchase order or credit card authorization.

Please note that in the case of certain non-NSF funded non-WHOI projects, an administrative surcharge of not more than 15% is collected.

Facility Accounting Constraints

The Facility must charge a standard rate to all users for standard services, and the Facility must operate with zero profit/loss. The fees collected completely support the Facility, paying for:

• All Facility personnel salary and benefits for operation, maintenance, repairs, development and other incidental personnel expenses (meetings and seminars, Institutional and external, budgeting, reporting, etc.);
• Space charge (laboratory physical plant costs, as required by Federal auditors);
• Consumables and repair parts;
• Capitalized Facility costs (e.g., UPS system);
• All other laboratory and office costs for Facility operations and/or personnel.

To the extent practical, the charges for each analysis type or instrumental usage in the Facility reflect the actual cost of that activity.