Items involved in the calculation of rates:
No item will incorporate any expenditure already financed with public subsidies.
1) Expendable material
- Material consumed directly during the performance of the service, including that necessary for instrumental calibrations and adjustments carried out immediately before, during or immediately after the service, and carried out as a consequence thereof.
- Material that a piece of equipment consumes during operation, even if it is not performing any analysis, and materials that are consumed during maintenance, calibrations, adjustments, etc.
- Long-lasting consumable material, which must be replaced periodically as normal wear and tear on equipment.
- Impact of current expenses involved in the operation of the benefits
2)Equipment maintenance
- Cost reflected in each service of preventive and/or corrective maintenance contracts for equipment.
- Repairs of annual equipment breakdowns.
- Maintenance costs of the service quality management system.
3) Personnel
Impact of the URV's own funds contribution on the expenses of personnel dedicated to both the preliminary and management tasks that guarantee the correct functioning of the equipment and the effective use thereof, whose hiring is not part of the URV's public employment offer.
In any case, the dedication of personnel is always billed separately from the instrumental analysis services.
4) Contribution of the URV's own funds to the financing of:
- Equipment replacement
- Update and improvement
- Acquisition of new equipment
5) Indirect costs (Fee)
It is equivalent to the fee applied by the URV, as established in the Budget Execution Bases. The sum of items 1) to 5) constitutes the total cost of each service.
6)Profit margin
20% on the total cost of the service as a profit margin specific to the economic sector of operation, which the URV applies in compliance with the provisions of article 107.1 of the Treaty of the Union for the carrying out of economic activities with scientific infrastructures subsidized with European Funds for R&D&I activities, so that they cannot be considered State Aid. The total economic activities to which this margin will be applied will represent an accessory volume, never exceeding 20% of the total volume of activity.
Billing: types of Rates
There are three types of billing, in terms of the rates that must be applied: activities to URV members, R&D&I activities (non-economic) to external parties, economic activities to external parties.
Applicability of the URV rate
This rate applies when the services provided are derived from:
- a) Basic or applied research through competitive actions or projects carried out by members of the URV. A project is considered competitive if it appears, and is considered so, in the National System for Advertising Public Aid and Subsidies (SNPASP) of the General Inspectorate of Public Administrations (IGAE) or in the CORDIS Projects&statistics platform (European projects), with the URV being the beneficiary of the grant.
- b) Totes les prestacions de col·laboració docent amb membres de la URV.
The URV rate differentiates between: URV researchers who have directly participated in the co-financing of SRCiT equipment (URVC)and the rest of the URV members. In the URVC rate, the impact of one hour of use of the equipment on the amount co-financed by their research group is subtracted from the URV rate.
Applicability of the EXTERNAL R&D&I ACTIVITIES rate
This rate applies when the services provided are derived from:
- a) Transfer actions or projects (non-competitive projects), that is, those that do not appear in the IGAE SNPASP database, or are not considered competitive, carried out by members of the URV, including the PDI.
- b) Competitive R&D&I projects (which appear, and are considered as such, in the IGAE SNPASP database or the CORDIS Projects&statistics platform) that have received funding in competitive competition where the beneficiaries are companies or institutions other than the URV (including ICIQ, IPHES, Eurecat, IRTA, VITEC, IISPV, ICAC), but the researchers are not PDI of the URV. In any case, to demonstrate compliance with this situation, the beneficiary institution may be requested to provide the resolution document in its favor for the granting of the grant to the project in which the researcher in question is listed, as well as the bases of the call that define the competitive competition with which the grant has been awarded.
Applicability of the EXTERNAL rate
S'aplica aquesta tarifa quan els serveis que es presten es deriven de la contractació provinent d'institucions o empreses externes a la URV no previstos als paràgrafs anteriors.
Important information for the provision of the service
- The current tax rate of the VAT law is applied to prices derived from external services on the final price.
- Expenses caused by the negligence of internal users in the use of SRCiT equipment and facilities must be paid by the user.
- The samples supplied to carry out the corresponding services will be stored in the necessary safety conditions for a maximum of six months. After this period, they will be managed as waste by an authorized manager. If the client requires longer storage periods, the corresponding authorization must be obtained from the Service Coordinator. In any case, the client will have to bear the extraordinary expenses that this modification of the standard storage period may cause.
- Samples will not be accepted for which the risks and special storage conditions have not been reported and which have been expressly authorized by the service technician responsible for the services.
- The data obtained from the performance of the corresponding services will be stored in secure conditions for a maximum of six months. After this period, they will be deleted from the ordinary backup system. If the client requires longer storage periods, the corresponding authorization must be obtained from the Service Coordinator. In any case, the client will have to bear the extraordinary expenses that this modification of the ordinary storage period may cause.
- The use of the SRCiT services implies acceptance of the user's obligation to mention the SRCiT as the source of the data obtained in scientific publications and communications that may derive from it.