SCP-1117 — SCP-1117 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-1117 Euclid ~ medium confidence

SCP-1117

Expected annual

$4.2M

One-time setup

$9.3M

Annual recurring

$3.9M

Personnel

One-time capital and research setup costs are substantial (~$9.3M) driven by contingency reserves, lab instrumentation, and specialized containment/transport; ongoing annual costs are dominated by staffing, medical care, surveillance and rapid-response readiness (~$3.93M/year) and can spike into the multi-million range during breaches.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $9.3M

Medical Research Program $3.0M

[#10] Multi-year preclinical and drug-discovery program reserve for mechanism/treatment development (aggregated multi-year appropriation treated as one-time capital/R&D).

Containment Breach Contingency Fund $2.8M

[#22] Large contingency appropriation for mass-response, surge capacity, and emergency mobilization (reserve/one-time appropriation).

Research Contingency Reserve $1.8M

[#26] Reserve for unexpected/long-tail research needs (specialized instrumentation, animal colonies, extended trials).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $650K

[#8] Laboratory instrumentation capital (LC-MS/MS, GC-MS, ICP-MS, metabolomics/proteomics setup).

Facilities $625K

[#1, #12] Reinforced secure vault construction and quarantine/isolation ward buildout (vault sized for table + workspace and 2–4-room quarantine module).

Transport Vehicle Purchase $210K

[#6] Armored/secure transport vehicle, climate-control crate and specialized packing for seizure operations (one-time vehicle purchase).

Equipment $200K

[#2, #24, #28] Remote handling/telemanipulator and shock-mounting hardware (#2); initial IT/hardware setup (#24 initial); initial freezer/evidence storage hardware (#28 initial).

Rapid Test Development Capital $150K

[#20] One-time development funding for rapid assay/RDT prototypes and initial kit production tooling.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $3.9M/yr

Staff Wages $855K/yr

[#4, #5, #9] 24/7 security staffing (armed/cleared guards and supervisors) (#4), containment technicians/maintenance staff (2–4 FTE) (#5), and portion of laboratory scientific staff wages (#9 split).

Cover Story And Legal $550K/yr

[#19] Ongoing PR/legal/cover-story operations, retainers and liaison work to suppress public panic and coordinate with authorities.

Rapid Response Mtf Costs $500K/yr

[#7] Mobile task force recurring operational costs: training, equipment, overtime, travel and deployment readiness.

Quarantine Ward Running $400K/yr

[#13] Nursing staff, security, sanitation, consumables and high-observation ratios for a small secure isolation ward.

Clinical Care Case Costs $330K/yr

[#11] Baseline clinical care for exposed individuals (assumes a small number of intensive inpatient cases per year; per-patient costs are highly variable).

Research And Monitoring $325K/yr

[#18] Surveillance, epidemiology, contact-tracing unit, analysts, software and field samplers for outbreak tracking.

Liability And Hush Payments $200K/yr

[#29] Baseline allocation for settlements, compensation and other payments to limit exposure (highly variable).

Breach Cleanup And Remediation Reserve $100K/yr

[#30] Annualized reserve for cleanup/remediation in the event of limited containment failures (major breaches funded via scenarios).

Supplies And Consumables $95K/yr

[#9] Laboratory consumables, reagents, sample prep disposables, columns, quarterly calibrations (operational consumables portion of #9).

Training And Sop $87K/yr

[#23] Ongoing training, SOP updates, and recurring drills for containment staff and medical personnel.

It Secure Records Annual $70K/yr

[#24] Annual secure IT operations, encrypted backups, audit logs and chain-of-custody systems (plus initial setup in one-time equipment).

Facilities Maintenance $60K/yr

[#3] Vault monitoring, environmental controls, HVAC, continuous power, UPS/genset maintenance and environmental sensors.

Psychological Support $60K/yr

[#25] Counseling and personnel support for staff, affected families and quarantined subjects.

Ppe And Decontamination $57K/yr

[#16] Full protective suits, decontamination supplies, disposable utensils and waste handling (monthly recurring PPE costs).

Tracking And Monitoring Program $50K/yr

[#21] GPS/device monitoring, check-ins and program overhead for known SCP-1117-3 subjects (baseline program overhead estimate).

Legal Seizure Per Case $42K/yr

[#27] Per-operation legal/seizure costs averaged into baseline (assumes occasional major seizure operation annually).

Logistics And Transport $30K/yr

[#6] Operational fuel, maintenance and running costs for transport vehicle(s) and climate-controlled crates (operational portion of #6).

Parenteral Nutrition And Electrolyte Therapy $30K/yr

[#14] TPN and aggressive electrolyte supplementation supplies and associated consumables (baseline patient-load estimate).

Biohazard Waste Disposal $30K/yr

[#17] Incineration/autoclave/shredding and licensed transport/disposal of contaminated meals and utensils.

Field Sampling Kit Consumables $30K/yr

[#20] Ongoing per-kit costs for swab kits, sampling consumables and small-scale assay kits (operational portion of #20).

Autopsy And Pathology $15K/yr

[#15] Advanced autopsies and tissue assays for fatal cases (per-case cost budgeted at baseline cadence).

Records Retention Annual $15K/yr

[#28] Cold storage (power/maintenance) and long-term sample storage recurring costs (initial freezer cost is in equipment).

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $3.9M/yr

87.5% probability / year

Normal year with containment maintained, occasional low-level cases and routine surveillance/maintenance.

no major breaches small number of exposed individuals routine surveillance and training

🚨 Minor Incident $4.1M/yr

10.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline

Localized public exposure or small cluster requiring expanded clinical response, additional sampling and PR/legal activity.

small restaurant/outing outbreak 2–10 additional clinical cases heightened PR/legal activity

🚨 Major Breach $8.9M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline

Widespread public outbreak requiring mass quarantine, large-scale sampling, major PR/legal mobilization and hospital surge.

restaurant chain or event-wide spread hundreds of exposures mass quarantines and large-scale remediation

🚨 Catastrophic Breach $23.9M/yr

0.5% probability / year +$20.0M vs baseline

Extensive uncontrolled spread with national media attention, massive clinical caseloads, prolonged legal battles and large-scale remediation.

city- or nation-wide outbreak failure of suppression and legal exposure prolonged remediation and high clinical mortality

👥 Personnel 14 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	8	[#4] 24/7 armed/cleared guards and supervisors to prevent contact with SCP-1117-1; baseline staffing estimate (3 shifts + supervisors).
Containment Technician / Maintenance	3	[#5] Trained techs to service vault, operate manipulators, maintain logs and decontaminate surfaces (2–4 FTE mapped to baseline staffing).
Research Scientist	3	[#9, #8] Dedicated lab scientists/technicians for sample analysis and ongoing research (2–3 FTE mapped to lab staffing portion of recurring costs).

📋 Confidence Notes

Line items and ranges are well-specified in analyst notes, enabling mid-point estimates, but many costs (per-patient care, legal settlements, breach scale) are highly variable and scenario-dependent, so overall confidence is medium.

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