This manual is published to establish standardized fee estimation standards and a basis to prevent research equipment fees from being imposed as too high or too low of a rate as the standards and basis are unclear and different among organizations. It offers clear standards needed to estimate the fee by explaining the research equipment and facility fee estimation standards using diverse cases. For this, it is necessary to describe the lexical meaning of the fee. The equipment operating manager should decide the fee in accordance with principles after setting the fee estimation method based on the samples or time according to the characteristics after complying with four principles (benefits-received principle, exclusion of over-invoicing, estimation of explicit costs, and lowest pricing) and investigating the operating characteristics of equipment.

Ⅰ. Background and necessities

Ⅱ. Concept of fee

Ⅲ. Basic principles for fee estimation

Ⅳ. Fee estimation procedures
1. Analysis of operational characteristics
2. Estimation of operating costs
3. Fee estimation