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UVa FACS Core Billing Policies

Late-arrival Policy:

On all instruments, users are charged from the beginning of their reservation time. This means that if you are late you will be charged for the time between your scheduled start and your actual arrival.

Cancellation/No-show Policy:

No-shows will incur usage fees for the entire reservation, including assistance (if requested).

Cancellation deadlines are 2 full working days before the start of any sorting or Cyan appointment and 1 full working day before any other FACS Core appointment. You must delete your appointment in 'Calendars for the Web' (CW) by these deadlines. Your appointment is not canceled until it has been deleted in CW and you alone are responsible for deleting it.

Cancellations made after the deadlines are considered late and may incur full usage fees, like a no-show. However, deleting your appointment in CW is better than leaving it on since it will allow the time slot to be reserved and used by another user. If some one else schedules and uses your canceled time, you will not be charged for that time. Even if no one else schedules or uses the time slot, you may not be charged full usage fees for your late cancellation.

Billing Period Policy:

Facility users are billed every month for hourly usage according to the rates below.

Hours of Operation:

The Flow Cytometry Core is operational 24 hours, 7 days a week. The Core's fully staffed hours are Monday-Friday (excepting official state holidays) 9am-6pm. On those days assistance is always offered 9am-5pm, and is also offered 5pm-6pm on many days.

Trained and experienced users may also request use of the instruments outside of the Core's staffed hours. The first time a user requests such an appointment, prior approval must be given by the Core's director, Joanne Lannigan. This initial request must be made at least 3 working days before the appointment.

Current Rates

Sorter:

FACSVantage with DIVA

Samples Requiring BSL2+ Precautions:
- 3 or 4 way sorting - $130/hr
- 2 way or plate sorting - $126/hr
All Other Samples
- 3 or 4 way sorting- $110/hr
- 2 way or plate sorting - $90/hr

Charges begin at the time scheduled plus one hour of set up time. This means if you are late you will be charged for the time you are late.

Cancellations: Must be made with at least two working day's notice. You must notify the FACS Core staff of any cancellations of Vantage reservations.

Benchtop Analyzers:

FACSCalibur

Assisted - $75/hr
Unassisted - $24.50/hr

Minimum charge: One half hour Cancellations: Must be made with at least one working day's notice.

**New to Flow Cytometry** - First time users will be given a free 30 minute trial run. Please make sure you request this when scheduling your first appointment.

Cyan ADP (9 color analyzer)

Assisted: $85/hour
Unassisted: $60/hour

Minimum charge: One half hour Cancellations: Must be made with at least two working days' notice.

Due to extremely high demand for the Cyan. You will also be charged for overbooking your reservation (if you reserve more time than you actually use).

Imagestream100 (Imaging Flow Cytometer)

Assisted: $85/hour
Unassisted: $65/hour

Minimum charge: One hour Cancellations: Must be made with at least one working day's notice.

Luminex100 (Multiplex Bead Assay Analyzer)

Assisted: $47/hour
Unassisted: $28/hour