| 1. What are the good and services being provided by
the service center?
2. Can a measurable unit of activity be readily determined?
If no, does not quality as a recharge center. Examples
of measurable unit, labor hour, machine hour, liter, page,
test, test tube, tray, set-up, slide, etc..
3. Can the amount of product distributed to each Individual
Account be measured easily and accurately? If no, does
not quality as a recharge center.
4. Can individual accounts be billed for products based
upon their actual usage at least monthly? If no, does
not quality as a recharge center.
5. Identify the costs associated with each service.
a. Personnel
b. Fringe
c. Capital Equipment with useful life
d. Non-capital equipment
e. Service or Maintenance Costs
f. Disposal Costs
g. Spoilage Costs
h. Inventories
i. Supply Costs
j. Travel and Training
6. Administrative personnel cost, including fringe benefits.
Administrative supplies.
7. Identify the basis of utilization such as hours, square
footage, per test, CPU time, miles driven, etc.
8. Estimate usage for each service.
9. Who will be the primary users of the goods/services?
a. Campus - Federal or Non-federal (Internal)
b. Public community (External)
10. What portion of income will be from federal grants
and contracts?
11. How many services will be offered?
12. Can goods/services with common customers and similar
costs be combined into one rate?
13. How will the service be charged? For example, per
hour, per item, etc..
14. Will equipment costing more than $5,000 be used in
the recharge center?
15. When will the center begin charging for providing
goods/services?
16. Will any costs to provide the goods/service be paid
from departmental funds?
17. Will the department provide resources as the center
gets up and running?
18. For new centers, identify initial funding.
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