Sara;

The standard answer is 'That Depends'.
In California I've seen monthly box storage costs from the low of $0.20 to
the high of $0.50. But that is only one line item on an invoice.

Some Common Commercial Records Center Costs:

• Pick-up and Delivery

• Check-in, Check-out

• Shelf Storage Costs

• Vault Storage Counts

• Data Entry

• Destruction (By Type)

• “Pull” Charges

• Space Reservation

• Account Closing “Hostage” Fees

For a vendor to quote you costs or for you to run an estimated budget to
keep the storage center in-house you need to describe in detail what is
being stored, how long it needs to be stored, the volume and frequency of
retrieval and the method of destruction required at the end of retention.

Sorry about the rude behavior but folks on this listserv can get you on the
right path.

Regards;

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John R Glover
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On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Sara Breitenfeldt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hello,
> I am an Archives Admin student and I'm working on an end of term project
> regarding records management.  I need to produce a report describing how a
> small company should manage their records.  I am trying to find out how much
> off site storage costs.  I contacted a local records storage company and
> they refused to even give me a ballpark figure, or even a broad range of
> what sort of fees they charge (I actually felt they were rather rude about
> it). Is this normal? Will these companies just never quote you unless you
> sit down with them and negotiate?
> Anyway, does anyone have any guidance on what secure off site storage of
> inactive records should cost? I am looking for a $x.xx per box, $x.xx per
> retrieval of box sort of thing.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Sara Breitenfeldt
>
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