The price of a project on The Secure Research Platform covers, among other things, time spent processing your application, advising, and programming your project. In addition, there are ongoing costs charged for active users, disk usage, and Stata license, if applicable.
Research Services charges for all time spent on your project. That is, we also invoice any advice that takes place once your project has been set up. If you wish to make changes to an ongoing project, you will be invoiced for time spent implementing the changes.
Before your project is programmed, we will enter an 'Agreement on data access'. This agreement will contain an estimate of how many hours we plan to use on the processing of your application and the programming of your data access. Please note that this is an estimate. We will continually record hours during the application process. If the task turns out to be significantly larger than the estimate given, we will contact you again.
Unless otherwise agreed, billing will be made to the authorised research environment. Billing occurs on a monthly basis at the current hourly rate. The invoice will state the number of hours spent on each project. It is possible to link different payers to projects under the same authorisation. However, billing of user fees and disk usage on The Secure Research Platform will be continuously invoiced to the authorised research environment.