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Per Diem Rates & Service Charges

Per Diem Rates

Mouse

Rates - Per Cage/Per Day

Cost Center
SPF
(Ventilated)

July 1, 2025
$0.82 per cage

July 1, 2026
$0.92 per cage

July 1, 2027
$1.03 per cage

Static

SPF + Tech Time

SPF + Tech Time

SPF + Tech Time

Special
(Sterile/Quarantine/
Hazardous)

$1.06 per cage

$1.06 per cage

$1.06 per cage

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Rat

Rates - Per Cage/Per Day

Cost Center
SPF (Ventilated)

July 1, 2025
$1.06 per cage

July 1, 2026
$1.13 per cage

July 1, 2027
$1.20 per cage

Static

$1.06 per cage

$1.13 per cage

$1.20 per cage

Breeding
(Cages with pups ≥ days of age)

SPF + Tech Time

SPF + Tech Time

SPF + Tech Time

Double Bedding
(Small & Large)

SPF + Tech Time

SPF + Tech Time

SPF + Tech Time

Special
(Sterile/Quarantine/
Hazardous)

$1.69 per cage

$1.69 per cage

$1.69 per cage

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Vole

Rates - Per Cage/Per Day

Cost Center
SPF (Ventilated)

July 1, 2025
$1.12 per cage

July 1, 2026
$1.26 per cage

July 1, 2027
$1.41 per cage

Static

$1.12 per cage

$1.26 per cage

$1.41 per cage

Breeding
(Cages with pups ≥ days of age)

SPF + Tech Time

SPF + Tech Time

SPF + Tech Time

Double Bedding
(Small & Large)

SPF + Tech Time

SPF + Tech Time

SPF + Tech Time

Special
(Sterile/Quarantine/
Hazardous)

$1.82 per cage

$1.90 per cage

$1.98 per cage

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Rabbit

Rates - Per Cage/Per Day

Per Cage Fee

July 1, 2025
$3.35 per cage

July 1, 2026
$3.35 per cage

July 1, 2027
$3.35 per cage

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Advance to Service Charges

Budget Planning

When developing your animal project budget for July 1 2028 and beyond, plan on 5%-7% annual increase for animal related expenses.


What's Included and Not Included in Your Per Diems?

Included

  • Daily observations of every animal
  • PPE
  • Standard husbandry, caging and supplies
  • Routine veterinary health care
  • Environmental enrichment
  • Washing/Sanitizing caging and related equipment
  • Husbandry supplies
  • Facility maintenance and sanitation
  • Refuse disposal
  • Sentinel program
  • Occupational health monitoring
  • Animal procurement from approved vendors
  • Training of research staff
  • Related supervisory and administrative costs

NOT Included

  • Quarantine testing
  • Specialty supplies and other services/supplies, as needed
  • Technical support services
    (injections, surgical support, post-op monitoring, breeding colony management, etc.)
  • Veterinary intervention
    (as a part of a research project or surgical/advanced medical intervention for research induced conditions)
  • Special diets/water
  • Clean fostering
  • Import/Export fees (to/from collaborating institutions)
  • Autoclaving lab supplies
  • The vendor animal charges, box/crate fees and shipping
  • Transportation of animals between campuses
  • Laundry services

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Miscellaneous Animal Husbandry & Service Charges

Technical Services

Technical services are charged in 15 minute increments

Services
Technical Support Services
(weaning, euthanasia, separations, etc.)

Rates/Fees
$30.00 per hour
($7.50 per 15 minutes)

Senior Technical Support Services
(injections, surgical support, breeding colony support, etc.)

$40.00 per hour
($10.00 per 15 minutes)

Veterinary Professional Services

  • Requested as a part of research project (protocol-approved surgery, necropsy or tissue harvesting to collect experimental data, etc)
    and/or
  • Veterinarian must provide surgical or advanced medical intervention for research -induced conditions.

$76.00per hour
($19.00 per 15 minutes).

Administrative Services

This fee may be assessed when:

$32.00 per hour
($8.00 per 15 minutes).

  • Animal requisitions are submitted after the Wednesday, Noon deadline and must be placed that week.
  • Animal requisitions are amended after the Wednesday, Noon deadline or after orders are placed with the vendor.
  • Requesting administrative/billing services beyond standard operating procedures.
  • Indexes submitted for animal orders are under funded or closed at the time of allocation.
  • Changing indexes or using an underfunded index after invoices are sent to the PI.
  • Using multiple indexes to cover DLAR charges.

Laundry/Scrub Services

$25.00 per month

Sunflower Seeds*

$1.03 per serving

*Prices are subject to change without notice.

Service fees are evaluated and adjusted as deemed necessary.

Metabolic Units

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Mouse Metabolic Unit

Rat Metabolic Unit

Rates/Fees

$60.00

$30.00

CLAMS Units

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Mouse CLAMS Unit

Rates/Fees

50% off per diem rate + $60.00 cleaning fee

Rat CLAMS Unit

50% off per diem rate

Import/Export of Live Animals

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Domestic Administration Fee

Rates/Fees

$101.00 up to 2 hours then $50.50 per hour*

International Administration Fee

$176.75 up to 3.5 hours then $50.50 per hour*

*Plus all applicable fees.
Fees may include courier costs, shipping supplies (crates, dividers, supplements), tech time, quarantine testing and additional administrative charges.

Delivery Service

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Transportation of animals between ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· campuses

Rates/Fees

$5.00 per crate + Tech Time

Airgas Tanks

Gas

Tank Rental


Tank Size

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Airgas Part Number

N/A


Rate/Fees

$0.23 per tank/per day


Oxygen

Extra Small

OX USPEA

$7.52 per tank

Oxygen

Large

OX USP200

$10.50 per tank

Carbon Dioxide

Extra Small

CD USPE

$16.03 per tank

Carbon Dioxide

Large

CD USP50X

$16.21 per tank

Specialty Gas
(0.5% CO2/20.5% O2/NI 200)

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$470.86 per tank

Specialty gas has a 2-4 week lead time to order.

  • Tank rental is charged per tank per day and billed monthly on your DLAR per diems invoice.
  • Tank charges will be invoice during the month the tank is replaced.Ìý
  • Prices are subject to change without notice.
  • Prices are as of March 13, 2025.

Surgical/Autoclave/Equipment Services

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Surgery Pack*

Autoclave Fee (Lab Supplies)*

Biological Indicator (for autoclave validation)

Lighted Tail Vein Restrainer Use Fee

HM5 Vet Scan**

Rates/Fees

$45.00

$30.00 per run

$15.00

$7.50 per use

$7.20 per run

*MUST be requested 48 hours in advance.
**Prices are subject to change without notice.

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