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Looks like around 400k base [0], but a full system with service appears like it would run over a million in a year or two [0] https://www.gsaadvantage.gov/ref_
by alextheparrot 7y ago
Looks like around 400k base [0], but a full system with service appears like it would run over a million in a year or two
[0] https://www.gsaadvantage.gov/ref_text/V797P7347A/0UZLK9.3QPYM1_V797P-7347A_V797P7347A.PDF https://www.gsaadvantage.gov/ref_text/V797P7347A/0UZLK9.3QPY... , page 13
- deng 7y agoThis is actually surprisingly cheap. My guess is the real margin is in the tests itself, which you must buy from Roche as well.
- jacquesm 7y agoThat is amazingly cheap, I expected an order of magnitude more.
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- nkrumm 7y agoThe video above (at least one of them) was showing an entire automation line built on Roche technology-- easily an order of magnitude more than 400k. The Cobas 8800 is just a component of that entire line.
- jacquesm 7y agoAh ok, that makes more sense. I figured a 100K or so per unit would be cheap the way it has been engineered. That's a whole robotic laboratory and what with the normal price of cleanroom equipment it would be ridiculously cheap if that setup was a few hundred K.
- dekhn 7y agoYes, and if you install one on site, they send dedicated techs to set it up, which lasts a month or more, plus custom integration with site software. I worked with a similar machine and if it lost its net connection to the backend database, it would dump half a million $ in reagents down the drain when it entered "safe mode".