Pricing and delivery times

The Bioinformatics Core Facility's services are contracted on an hourly basis. All academic users are charged equally (950 NOK/hr). VAT is exempt for all Helse Sør-Est institutions (invoice payment must be from a Helse Sør-Est institution account). 

For each project an initial consultation is done to discuss the users' needs before a research agreement is drafted. The agreement describes the overall analysis strategy and deliverables, as well as estimated costs. Please note that any sensitive data requires a TSD project which needs to be organized by the user before BCF can fulfill the agreement. BCF has some capacity for analysis of small sensitive datasets in-house.  

The invoiced hours are equivalent to hands-on time and not time used for computation. Delivery time is usually around 4-6 weeks for small to medium projects. Depending on the analyzes requested, the size of the data, and the need for data analysis within TSD, the delivery time might be longer. Please request a formal quote for accurate pricing and time of delivery. Examples of projects with corresponding price estimates can be found here . 

Do you have questions? Drop by zoom for an informal free consultation on Wednesdays between 14.30 and 15.30 on Zoom . Here both Bioinformatics and Genomics Core Facility members are present. 

For any further queries, do not hesitate to contact us at bioinformatics@ous-research.no