But in charging per record is this not getting a bit close to charging for data which I thought we were not allowed to do as opposed to charging for the staff time to produce the data.
Regards,
Mike
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From: Issues related to Historic Environment Records on behalf of Nick Boldrini
Sent: Tue 09/01/2007 15:51
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Subject: Re: Charging [No Viruses detected]
Hi Sarah
interesting charging scales. Was this a new policy? Was it recently introduce? How did it go down?
I am thinking of the charging per record/map aspect. If we did this, a fair amount of searches would cost more than they do now (we have a standard fee at the moment, regardless of size of inquiry), and some searches (eg the coastline data for various projects I have recently given out) would have cost a load more. But then the cost would be directly reflected by the time it took us.
Also do you levy this charge for eg PDF maps or only hard copy maps?
Finally, I like the urgent request idea (one I was pondering) - does this mean an urgent request automatically costs Forty Pounds (ie the cost is twenty pounds over and above the normal cost?)
I also like the clause about no more than 50 sheets - but will expand upon that in a separate thread.
I would still like to hear more views on charging!
best wishes
Nick Boldrini
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>>> Poppy Sarah <[log in to unmask]> 09/01/2007 15:29 >>>
Dear Tom and all
Happy New Year to you all!
Tom's suggestion below is exactly what I have started doing with the frequent contracting users and it has proved to be very efficient and far less tedious to implement. The danger of too steep an enquiry cost is that all important HER enquiry this will be bypassed by whatever means (especially given current and future developments in online access). It is a noticeable trend that monies from commercial HER enquiries is increasingly becoming an important source of income for our service, and that income has increased 3-4 fold in the last 2 years.
Full details of our charging policy, which has been working very smoothly for the last 2 years, are available online at http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/44034CA6-DE27-4804-B61E-21198BD59319/0/CHERGuidance.pdf for anyone interested.
Best wishes
Sarah
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From: Issues related to Historic Environment Records
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Thomas Rees
Sent: 09 January 2007 13:48
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Subject: Re: Charging [No Viruses detected]
Sounds a bit severe on commercial enquiries; especially for archaeological consultants/contractors who need to consult frequently on small issues. Could you not just have an account system for frequent enquirers and bill on a quarterly basis ... less paperwork, lower overhead costs, more freedom to operate.
Tom
>We still only charge for commercial enquiries. We've just found out it
>costs 35 pounds to process an invoice, so we now have to add that onto our
>hourly rate (and there is discussion at management level at the moment that
>we should ALWAYS charge a minimum one day's rate for *any* commercial
>enquiry, no matter how small - so that would be a minimum £285 for a
>commercial SMR query)
>Andy
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