Current Raman lab user fees for July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025
| Internal Users | Federal Users | Non-Profit/ Academic | For-Profit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raman Instrument Use | $55/hr | $55/hr | $110/hr | $165/hr |
| Raman Overnight Mapping | $275/overnight | $275/overnight | $800/overnight | $1350/overnight |
| FTIR Instrument Use | $22/hr | $22/hr | $65/hr | $110/hr |
| Assistance or Training | $55/hr | $55/hr | $55/hr | $85/hr |
User Types
Internal Users: Internal users are CU affiliates paying with funds managed by the University. Payment is made by Interdepartmental Invoice (IN) from a University speedtype.
Federal Users: Federal users are employees/affiliates of a U.S. federal government agency. Payment must come directly from the federal agency (federal grant dollars managed by an educational insitution do not count).
Non-profit/Academic Users: Non-profit users are employees/affiliates/students of a non-profit organization including universities and educational institutions other than CU.
For-Profit Users: For-profit include all users not otherwise defined. Examples include private businesses and private citizens.
Rate Types
Raman Instrument Use: Includes all hands-on instrument use, as well as Raman mapping activities between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm.
Raman Overnight Mapping: This discounted rate is for automated/unsupervised instrument time only, outside of normal business hours (9:00 am - 5:00 pm).
FTIR Instrument Use: Includes all instrument time using the FTIR/FTIR microscope.
Assistance or Training: The assistance rate is for any focused staff time, and is in addition to any applicable instrument use rate. Examples include: training, assistance in analyzing samples, application development, data processing. (No charge for answering brief questions or troubleshooting issues not caused by users.)
Payment
All users will receive monthly invoices.
External users
External Users may pay invoices by credit card, check, or wire transfer.
Credit card: Credit card payments are made through touchnet. Please check the bottom of your invoice for a link to pay your invoice by credit card.
Check: Please make checks payable to "Regents of the University of Colorado" and mail to:
Wire transfer: Please email ramanlab@colorado.edu for wire transfer instructions.
Internal Users
All internal users are charged by interdepartmental invoice (IN) to the speedtype provided.