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LRAT Charges

LRAT 's charging policy generally exempts bookings for teaching from charges. Non-teaching bookings might include a meeting of academics  discussing teaching, a conference, training course or seminar for which a charge is being made or a recruitment event.

For guidance on choosing equipment see our Equipment Choice page.

Hire Charges : from 1st August 2011

Please note that these prices include an insurance charge - previously added separately. For customers outside the University (for instance student societies, the Guild of Students, NHS departments etc) VAT is additionally charged at 20%.

Prices will be revised again from 1st August 2012

for equipment hire:. 

  • 1/2 Day is a period of 4 hours or less
  • Full Day is 4 - 24 hours.
Equipment 1/2 Day Full Day
Projection and Computers

VBP (Data Projector)

£60 £120
Laptop Computer§ £25 £50
Portable Presentation Pod - incl Plasma Screen, DVD, VCR, Computer and Speakers £100 £200
Presentation Accessories
TurningPoint Personal Response System (up to 350 users) £30 £30
Presenter £9. £15.
Visualiser £25. £48.
Flipchart Stand £9 £15
Sound
PA Equipment £76 £130
Radio Microphone £30. £55
Olympus Portable Voice Recorder £5 £10
Microphones for general use £6. £10
Great Hall sound system including basic microphone provision £280* £560*
Screens

Projection Screen 6' x 6'

£9 £15
Projection Screen 8' x 8' £27 £45
Projection Screen 12' x 12' £45 £75
Legacy AV Equipment
OHP £20 £35
35mm Slide Projector £20 £35
Other Equipment
VHS/DVD Combination £19 £36
Audio Cassette Player £10 £18
CD Player £20. £35
DV Camera/Tripod £50 £90
Tandberg Portable Video Conferencing or LRAT Video Conference Suite £50. / £100**
Off-air Recording (FreeView channels only), inc DVD production £30 per recording
Late Booking Fee

for items booked additionally on the day of the booking (per session fee)

£40
Technical Support Hour
Monday - Friday 08.00 - 17.00 £40
Evenings after 17.00 & Saturdays¶ £45
Sundays ¶ £50

* charged at £70/hr of the meeting. eg a 3 hr meeting with 1hr use of the PA system will cost £210 plus technical support

# The day rate has been discontinued

 ¶ minimum booking and charging of 4 hours per day on Saturdays and Sundays

** higher charges apply to non-University bookers, either directly or through the Conference Office

 § maximum length of hire, three days

University customers of LRAT should purchase through Proactis. We do not accept IBCTs. Clients should make their booking first through our web booking system indicating which account can be charged* in case of default , an email will be sent with the charge. Then within 5 working days a purchase through Proactis should be initiated and approved. LRAT has a purchase order template - IOLRT. The order line should be IOLRT-EQBOOK which defaults to qty 1 price £0.00. Leave the quantity at 1 but amend the price to our quote. In the footer the comments line should contain the LRAT booking number (which begins EB..)

* The account code should be the code you wish to be charged for the booking eg LLLL GBM888
 

External Customers pay VAT

External customers - including student societies, charities and the Guild can pay by cheque made payable to 'The University of Birmingham' and must add a further 20% to the total for VAT.