SCP-100 — SCP-100 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-100 Euclid ✓ high confidence

SCP-100

Expected annual

$2.3M

One-time setup

$1.7M

Annual recurring

$2.3M

Personnel

Initial capital and site setup are moderate (~$1.69M one-time) driven by lab fit-out, furnace/equipment purchases, property acquisition and a contingency fund; recurring annual operating costs are ~ $2.26M/yr dominated by security and research payrolls, insurance, and hazardous-waste/compliance costs.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.7M

Equipment $553K

[#6, #10, #11, #12, #14, #18, #24] Induction furnace & installation, CCTV/access hardware, ATVs/radios, forklift, secure transport van & crates, inventory software/scanners, server hardware.

Contingency Reserve $500K

[#28] Recommended emergency contingency reserve fund for anomalous incidents, replacements and emergency deployments.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $350K

[#5] Warehouse conversion/lab fit-out (benches, fume hood, ventilation, power upgrades, basic analytical instruments).

Facilities $188K

[#9, #20, #22] Perimeter/storefront structural upgrades and property acquisition (fence/gates, storefront upgrades, land acquisition midpoint).

Environmental Assessment $38K

[#15] One-time site environmental assessment for hazardous materials, emissions baseline and remediation planning.

Permitting And Regulatory $30K

[#16] Initial permitting/legal engineering for emissions and melting permit applications.

Cover Setup $18K

[#17] One-time cover/registration/legal setup (fake business registration, paperwork) to establish the site cover story.

Training And Sop Development $15K

[#21] Initial SOP creation and training rollout (handling constructs, decontamination, anomalous procedures).

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $2.3M/yr

Staff Wages $1.8M/yr

[#1, #2, #3, #4, #18] Security guards payroll (18 FTEs), supervisors + rapid-response medic/officer, on-site medic (salary portion), research staff salaries, inventory manager salary.

Insurance And Workers Comp $80K/yr

[#23] Insurance premiums and workers' compensation for site staff and environmental exposure.

Energy Costs $60K/yr

[#7] Electricity for site, lab, induction furnace, HVAC, IT and CCTV.

Facilities Maintenance $49K/yr

[#6, #9, #10, #20, #25] Furnace filter replacement & emissions monitoring, perimeter repairs, CCTV monitoring & maintenance, storefront maintenance, grounds/site maintenance allocation.

Administrative Overhead $45K/yr

[#30] HR, accounting, travel, local supplier contracts and other admin support costs.

Supplies And Consumables $40K/yr

[#11, #19] PPE replacement and welding/fabrication consumables (electrodes, shielding gas, grinding discs, gloves).

Cover Story And Legal $40K/yr

[#17] Ongoing legal/cover story, liaison, occasional PR and local suppression costs.

Vehicle Disposal And Processing $40K/yr

[#26] Ongoing processing of stored vehicles (fluid draining, decommissioning, controlled recycling).

Waste Handling And Remediation $38K/yr

[#15] Annual hazardous waste disposal, scrap processing compliance and recycling/disposal contracts.

Logistics And Transport $35K/yr

[#12, #13, #14] Forklift/vehicle maintenance & fuel, fuel/vehicle operating costs, off-site transport vehicle maintenance.

Utilities And Site Services $18K/yr

[#8] Water, septic/sewer, internet/telecom and basic site services.

Property Taxes Or Lease $15K/yr

[#22] Annual property tax or lease payments (midpoint estimate).

Research And Monitoring $10K/yr

[#29] Long-term monitoring, archival retention and periodic reviews/audits.

Permitting And Compliance $10K/yr

[#16] Ongoing emissions reporting, inspections and compliance engineering.

Training And Sop $8K/yr

[#21] Annual refresher training and periodic drills.

Data Storage And Backup $6K/yr

[#24] Hosting, backups and cybersecurity for video and research data.

Contingency Replenishment $0/yr

[#28] No planned automatic annual replenishment; used as-needed to top up the contingency reserve.

Scrap Sales Revenue $-5000/yr

[#27] Modest and unreliable revenue offset from scrap sales (negative cost).

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $2.3M/yr

84.0% probability / year

Normal year with routine operations, no major incidents.

routine operations no breaches scheduled maintenance

🚨 Minor Incident $2.3M/yr

12.0% probability / year +$75K vs baseline

Small breach or on-site incident requiring local response, repairs, overtime and limited amnestic use.

limited breach localized equipment damage amnestic deployment

🚨 Major Breach $2.9M/yr

3.0% probability / year +$600K vs baseline

Significant breach requiring MTF deployment, asset replacement, extended containment and public mitigation.

large-scale breach civilian exposure equipment destruction

🚨 Catastrophic Breach $4.3M/yr

1.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline

Severe containment failure requiring full lockdown, major reconstruction, mass amnestic operations and long-term relocation of assets.

total containment failure widespread exposure site reconstruction

👥 Personnel 28 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	18	[#1] 18 full-time guards accounting for 1.6x coverage (shifts, vacations, sick leave).
Security Supervisor	2	[#2] Senior security supervisors for oversight and escalation.
Rapid-Response Officer / Medic	1	[#2] Rapid-response medic/officer as part of supervisory/response team.
Medical Officer	1	[#3] On-site medic for amnestics administration, injury care and medical supplies management.
Head Researcher / Principal Investigator	1	[#4] Head Researcher leading lab and testing protocols.
Research Scientist	2	[#4] Scientists conducting allowed tests on non-prohibited constructs and analyses.
Research Technician / Lab Tech	2	[#4] Lab technicians supporting research operations and sample processing.
Inventory Manager	1	[#18] Inventory manager responsible for tracking vehicles, scrap and created/melted objects.

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provided line-item estimates for nearly every cost center (staffing, equipment, utilities, compliance), producing a well-constrained budget; remaining uncertainty is in property/purchase choices and incident frequency which are explicitly modeled in scenarios.

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