SCP-5825 — SCP-5825 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-5825 Decommissioned ~ medium confidence

SCP-5825

Expected annual

$1.7M

One-time setup

$11.0M

Annual recurring

$1.6M

Personnel

One-time decommissioning and legacy preservation estimated at $11.01M driven mainly by emergency seed funding, severance payouts, site mothballing/demolition, and archival projects. Recurring annual costs are about $1.56M/year primarily for staffing, cybersecurity/IT, contingency replenishment, and legal/PR operations.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $11.0M

Emergency Contingency Seed Fund $5.0M

[#13] Liquid capital reserved to mobilize rapid response if phenomenon reappears or archives are compromised.

Severance And Hr Closure $2.5M

[#16] Severance, pension settlements, and HR closure costs for former employees.

Facilities $1.2M

[#7, #9] Mothballing/stabilization and demolition/repurposing costs for legacy facility.

Opportunity Cost Accounting $1.0M

[#27] Accounting recognition of lost institutional value and foregone revenue (non-cash but budgeted).

Litigation Reserve $500K

[#25] Seeded reserve for lawsuits and unforeseen liabilities.

Digitization And Cataloging $300K

[#1] High-resolution scanning, metadata creation, and integrity checks for legacy records.

Hazardous Material Remediation $200K

[#8] Asbestos/chemical/radiological remediation and certification for legacy sites.

Declassification Project $200K

[#26] One-time mass redaction and sanitized public information project to mitigate leaks.

Relocation Event Transport $50K

[#18] Secure transport/armored moves for initial major relocation event.

Regulatory Permits One Time $10K

[#24] One-time permits/fees for site transactions and compliance paperwork.

Equipment $0

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Initial Research And Lab Setup $0

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Museumization Build $0

[#23] Optional museum/memorial build not pursued in baseline decommission plan.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.6M/yr

Research And Monitoring $300K/yr

[#12] Small monitoring & research team (PI + technicians) for periodic review and investigations.

Contingency Replenishment $250K/yr

[#14] Annual replenishment of contingency funds and small incident response budgets.

Cover Story And Legal $200K/yr

[#10, #11] Legal counsel retainer/FOIA handling plus PR/narrative management and takedown operations.

Staff Wages $160K/yr

[#5] Archivist/records staff salaries (approx. 2 archivists).

Secure Hosting And Cybersecurity $150K/yr

[#3] Intrusion monitoring, patching, encryption key management and managed security services for archives.

Security Staffing $120K/yr

[#6] Armed/unarmed guards, monitoring cameras, and access-control staffing for physical archives.

Facilities Maintenance $75K/yr

[#4] Climate control, HVAC maintenance, pest control, lease/maintenance of physical archive facility.

It Hardware Refresh $60K/yr

[#19] Averaged annual budget for server/storage refresh cycles and migrations.

Insurance $50K/yr

[#15] Liability, property, and cyber insurance premiums.

Artifact Conservation $50K/yr

[#17] Conservation, inert packaging, and periodic inspections for preserved anomalous items.

Declassification Moderation $50K/yr

[#26] Ongoing moderation, takedown, and hosting costs after initial declassification project.

Software Licensing $30K/yr

[#20] Document management, redaction tools, DRM/encryption licenses and compliance tooling.

Access Control And Background Checks $25K/yr

[#21] Ongoing vetting, reinvestigation and insider-threat mitigation for cleared roster.

Digital Preservation $20K/yr

[#2] Cold storage, tape/cloud replication, integrity checks and restoration tests.

Audits And Accreditation $20K/yr

[#22] Periodic safety/compliance audits and external reviews.

Regulatory Fees Recurring $3K/yr

[#24] Ongoing local inspection fees and minor recurring regulatory costs.

Supplies And Consumables $0/yr

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Logistics And Transport $0/yr

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Museumization Ops $0/yr

[#23] No museum operations budget allocated in baseline.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.6M/yr

94.0% probability / year

Normal, uneventful year covering routine archival operations, staffing, IT, legal/PR, and contingency replenishment.

no_incidents routine_operations

🚨 Minor Incident $2.1M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline

Localized data breach, small contamination, or limited unauthorized access requiring rapid response and legal/PR work.

localized_contamination limited_data_breach unauthorized_access

🚨 Major Breach $9.6M/yr

1.0% probability / year +$8.0M vs baseline

Significant reactivation or large-scale compromise of archives/sites requiring full mobilization, remediation, litigation and use of emergency funds.

widespread_contamination major_security_breach large_scale_litigation

👥 Personnel 10 total

Role	Count	Notes
Archivist / Records Staff	2	[#5] Two archivists covered by staff_wages estimate.
Research Scientist / Technician	3	[#12] Small monitoring & research team (PI + technicians) accounted in research_and_monitoring.
Security Officer / MTF Agent	3	[#6] On-site guards and access-control personnel covered in security_staffing.
Sysadmin / IT	1	[#3, #19] Dedicated sysadmin plus managed services for secure hosting and hardware lifecycle.
Administrative Staff	1	[#4, #24] Site admin / liaison duties folded into facilities and regulatory budgets.

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provide detailed line-item ranges enabling mid-range budgeting, but many items depend heavily on unknown asset counts and hazard severity (seed fund, severance, and remediation scale), so estimates carry moderate uncertainty.

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