>Also we distribute the costs among various participating departments. In the
>past there was a list of relative benefit and potential benefit from the
>program. These tables were used to generate the semi-annual reports which are
>no longer needed. However, we found them very useful for chargeback purposes.
I administer the DEC programs at Penn State Univ. I too have to charge
back all costs to the subscribers/machines in the program. In my case,
there are about 300 machines and the DEC program runs around $200K.
I've used actual $costs from the US Price List, and monthly maintenance
costs from any reliable source (our contracts administrator, the price
guide, etc.). And I must say, it is a royal pain to try and accurately
capture this information in any meaningful form.
I've found (for the past 4 years) that there is no real relationship
whatsoever between the "CSLG Value Table" numbers and the actual,
Educational discounted list prices for any product or service you'd
care to name.
I therefore find it odd that you are able to use these same numbers
as a basis for your chargeback algorithms. How do you do it?
If you have a workable solution that stands up to challenge and audit,
I'd love to hear about it.
Regards,
Jim Forkner - Penn State Univ - Digital TEI Programs
Betz,
Why don't you see me about this and we'll see if Lou can do something on the
fortran price or something.
Regards,
E