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lmh » Wed Jan 23, 2019 5:11 pm
The answer will depend enormously on who does the work. If you're in a university somewhere and you can find a collaborator, also in a university, the costs will possibly be an order of magnitude lower than if you get it done by a contract analysis company (because universities care about their academic output and can balance their equipment costs against their teaching income, while a contract analysis company can only stay afloat if it covers all of its costs from every job). Also, exactly how a job is costed depends on who's paying; if you're applying for grants from national research bodies, some will allow rates that include depreciation of instruments, others will not.
In effect: don't ask here, look around at the people who you can actually get to do the work (academic collaborators, contract labs), and ask them. That way if you are lucky and get the funding, you're guaranteed to have someone who'll do the job for the price. Also your application will look stronger because you'll have shown practically that it's possible and well thought through.
Remember also that if you're in academia, have basic lab equipment but not hplc, and want to do sugars, there are good spectrophotometric methods available for glucose, fructose and sucrose.