Specialized Service Facility

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Stanford: Federal regulations define  a Specialized Service Facility as one which involves the use of highly complex or specialized facilities, such as the Veterinary Service Center (VSC). The cost of such a service shall normally consist of both its direct costs and its allocable share of indirect costs. Stanford has further defined an SSF as meeting all three of the following criteria: 1) the service center must incur annual expenses of at least a million dollars; 2) its business must "materially" affect Stanford's on-campus Organized Research cost rate (by greater than 1/10th of a rate point); and 3) its services must not be easily available from an outside vendor. Breakeven is +/- 15%.

Taimu: Type of service center that provides highly complex or specialized services and has annual operating budget of at least $1,000,000.