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SCP-1707 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-1707
Expected annual
$2.3M
One-time setup
$4.8M
Annual recurring
$2.3M
Personnel
15
Initial capital/setup costs are approximately $4,775,000 driven primarily by construction of a certified animal BSL‑3 suite and a large contingency reserve; ongoing annual operations are estimated at $2,276,000/year dominated by staff wages, an active research program, and dedicated recontainment/security teams.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $4.8M
Facilities $2.3M
[#1, #26] BSL-3 animal containment suite construction, certification and commissioning plus containment surface remediation/sealants.
Equipment $1.3M
[#2, #4, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #14, #19, #25, #33] HVAC/HEPA and monitoring hardware, backup generator/UPS, sealed animal stalls, initial environmental monitoring, autoclave, morgue refrigeration, wastewater treatment hardware, animal ICU/life-support gear, PPE capital, transport vehicle retrofit, and on-site freezers.
Contingency Reserve $1.0M
[#32] Containment breach remediation fund / emergency escalation reserve held as a one-time capital reserve.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $190K
[#11, #22] Purchase of initial host animals and laboratory capital equipment (microscopes, imaging, centrifuges) for research startup.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $2.3M/yr
Staff Wages $1.1M/yr
[#12, #15, #16, #17, #18] Salaries for veterinary officer, senior researcher + technicians, dedicated animal care technicians, duty biothreat recontainment specialists, and site security staff.
Research And Monitoring $683K/yr
[#7, #23, #24, #27, #28, #34] Continuous environmental/CCTV monitoring service, DNA/RNA sequencing contract, multi-year countermeasure research program, recurring training/drills, regulatory/compliance overhead, and ethics/extraordinary-approval administration.
Supplies And Consumables $183K/yr
[#9, #12, #13, #20, #21, #33, #35] Biohazard disposal contract, veterinary consumables/medicines, feed and nutrition, PPE consumables and cartridge replacement, lab reagents, off-site sample storage fees, and lure/recontainment consumables.
Facilities Maintenance $170K/yr
[#3, #5, #10, #14, #30, #31] HVAC/HEPA maintenance and filter replacement, generator fuel/maintenance, wastewater treatment operation, life-support/ICU equipment maintenance, incremental utilities, and maintenance contracts/spare-parts.
Cover Story And Legal $120K/yr
[#18, #29] Legal services, containment PR/cover management and administrative costs related to badging/background checks.
Logistics And Transport $15K/yr
[#25] Operating costs for secure bio-containment transport vehicle and containment crates.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $2.3M/yr
83.0% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents; routine operations, research, maintenance and staffing.
routine_operations scheduled_maintenance ongoing_research
🚨 Minor Incident $2.4M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$150K vs baseline
Localized containment incident (e.g. unhosted colony outside primary enclosure or short equipment failure) requiring targeted remediation, overtime, limited decontamination and replacement/supplemental hosts.
unhosted_colony_breach localized_power_or_hvac_outage small_decontamination_event
🚨 Major Breach $3.8M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$1.5M vs baseline
Significant containment failure (hosted-colony breach, multiple host mortality or prolonged power loss) requiring full facility deep decon, large-scale recontainment response, replacement colony establishment and legal/PR expenditure.
hosted_colony_breach multiple_host_deaths extended_power_or_system_failure
👥 Personnel 15 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 1 [#15] Senior researcher/project lead included in research staff salaries.
Research Technician 2 [#15] Laboratory/technical support included in research staff salaries.
Veterinary Officer 1 [#12] On-call veterinarian and clinical support budgeted under veterinary care.
Animal Technician 3 [#16] Daily husbandry and containment-trained animal techs.
Duty Biothreat Specialist 4 [#17] Rapid-response recontainment team specialists with hazard pay.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 4 [#18] 24/7 security staffing and access control personnel.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges for most categories, enabling a reasonable aggregate estimate; biological unpredictability of SCP reproduction-on-death and site-specific construction/labor costs introduce residual uncertainty.
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