← SCP Cost Explorer Read on SCP Wiki ↗
SCP-8137 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-8137
Expected annual
$106K
One-time setup
$355K
Annual recurring
$102K
Personnel
0.2
One-time setup estimated at $354,650 driven largely by contingency and potential hazardous/BSL upgrades; baseline recurring costs are modest at $101,900/year, driven by part-time research staffing, research materials, and an allocated scaled-risk operations reserve.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $355K
Facilities $290K
[#21, #22, #25] Hazardous/volatile-material storage upgrades, radiological certification/access costs, and scaled-risk infrastructure (BSL upgrades/large archival capacity) aggregated as facility-level construction/modification costs.
Incident Response Reserve $50K
[#15] One-time contingency reserve allocation for rapid-response costs (decontamination, contractor mobilization) held at Site level.
Equipment $9K
[#1, #4, #8, #11, #16, #18] Locker acquisition/modification, surveillance/tamper sensors, possible autoclave share/purchase, chain-of-custody/digital logging setup, owner buyout/acquisition, and spare replacement containers aggregated as equipment/hardware costs.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $3K
[#20] Initial small-scale research lab setup and starter materials to enable low-intensity testing (instruments/reagents/setup specific to research use).
Sop Development $2K
[#6] One-time costs to draft containment/testing SOPs and initial staff training materials.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $102K/yr
Scaled Risk Operations $50K/yr
[#25] Recurring operations reserve in case of scaled-risk scenario (BSL operation costs, extended refrigeration, forensic/legal support) — conservative allocation to reflect potential high-cost operations.
Staff Wages $20K/yr
[#5] 0.1–0.25 FTE of research staff (PI oversight + technician time) fully loaded per year.
Research And Monitoring $11K/yr
[#20, #23] Recurring experimental materials, reagents, small-animal costs (if approved), and long-term archival/cataloguing maintenance.
Supplies And Consumables $3K/yr
[#7, #9, #8] PPE and handling consumables, baseline biohazard waste disposals, and recurring decontamination consumables/operation costs.
Logistics And Transport $3K/yr
[#13] Secure transport and transfer budget for internal/external moves, couriers, and escorts.
Administrative Oversight $3K/yr
[#12] Institutional/bioethics review and Site Command oversight administrative costs.
Radiological Dosimetry $2K/yr
[#22] Recurring dosimetry and radiological access costs if radioactive testing occurs on a recurring basis.
Facilities Maintenance $2K/yr
[#2] Pro-rated site space allocation and overhead for dedicated locker/storage (heating, amortization, admin).
Insurance And Liability $2K/yr
[#17] Incremental insurance premium allocation for lab assets and liability coverage.
Cover Story And Legal $1K/yr
[#16] Small annual legal/cover-story retainer and incident-level legal consults (routine level).
Site Security $1K/yr
[#3] Incremental monitoring and patrol costs absorbed by site security budget (CCTV maintenance, access logging costs).
Training And Sop Refresher $1K/yr
[#6] Annual refresher training and SOP updates.
Medical Forensic Support $1K/yr
[#14] Budgeted pay-as-incurred allocation for occasional forensic/pathology support (rare, per-incident costs are higher).
Mental Health Services $800/yr
[#24] EAP/counseling budget for staff exposed to preserved human/animal remains.
Chain Of Custody Maintenance $600/yr
[#11] Recurring maintenance/licensing and barcode/audit trail upkeep for chain-of-custody systems.
Surveillance And Tamper Maintenance $500/yr
[#4] Ongoing maintenance/storage costs for camera/tamper sensor logging systems.
Refrigerated Storage $500/yr
[#10] Refrigeration/freezer allocation and inventory management costs for long-term specimen storage (small-sample racks to modest freezer allocations).
Energy And Utilities $200/yr
[#19] Power costs for CCTV, logging servers, and small monitoring equipment.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $102K/yr
95.5% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents: routine monitoring, occasional tests, and standard maintenance.
routine_testing no_incidents standard_maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $129K/yr
4.0% probability / year +$27K vs baseline
Single containment-related incident (e.g., accidental preservation of a human/large specimen or contamination event) requiring forensic services, disposal, and legal/response costs.
accidental_preservation biohazard_disposal forensic_involvement
🚨 Scaled Risk Escalation $702K/yr
0.5% probability / year +$600K vs baseline
High-cost escalation where SCP-8137 is used with dangerous organisms or many large preserved remains accumulate, requiring rapid BSL-3/4 upgrades and prolonged operations.
malicious_use many_preserved_remains BSL_upgrade_required
👥 Personnel 0.2 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 0.15 [#5] PI-level oversight and test approval represented as partial FTE (part-time allocation).
Lab Technician 0.05 [#5] Occasional technician time for sample handling and testing support (fractional FTE).
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line items and plausible ranges for most categories, so mid-level confidence; large conditional items (BSL upgrades, radiological events, scaled-risk scenarios) are highly uncertain and could materially change costs.
← SCP-8136 ↑ All SCPs SCP-8138 →