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<div>Does anyone have some statistical information on the costs of TEM annual service contracts?</div>
<div>I ask because for us, this is the largest cost service contract of any instrument that we have by far.</div>
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<div>I assume very few universities are capable of keeping these instruments up and running to spec without a service contract. Am I wrong?</div>
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<div>Is anyone capable of keeping these costs below $100k per instrument per year?</div>
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<div>Anybody below $50k per year?</div>
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<div>If so, I would be very interested to know which instrument manufactures and what strategies are employed to achieve this. We have FEI.</div>
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<div>-Michael.</div>
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