Hylobius Management Support System (MSS) subscription charges

 

Why are there subscription charges for Hylobius MSS?

Forest Research has developed the Hylobius MSS over a number of years and has absorbed the system development costs. However, now this stage is largely complete, there will be a modest subscription charge to cover administration, maintenance of servers, subscriber accounts and help facilities required for delivery to end-users.  Managers will quickly recognise that the cost savings from the improved management of Hylobius using the system should more than offset the subscription charges.

Subscription rates 2008/09

Annual subscription charges for use of the system are shown in the table below.

Indicative Cost/ha is £27.75 + VAT for a single site, £5.55 + VAT for 5 sites to £2.96  + VAT for 50 sites (assumes average clearfell is 16ha.).

The more sites that are managed by the user (or user group) the lower the overall cost/ha of managing clearfells under the Hylobius MSS.  This can be calculated from the table (total cost/ (no. of sites x average size)) and is explained on the FAQ page. 

Customers should consider how many sites they wish to manage within the Hylobius MSS and purchase sufficient for their requirements.  Additional sites can be purchased at any time, but it is more cost effective to purchase sufficient sites for a single year’s use at one time. 

A reminder will be issued in March each year to subscribers so that they can consider whether access for new sites needs to be purchased for that year. Additional sites will be payable at rates in the table above and not considered additive to purchases made in previous years (or within year). 

If more sites are purchased than used in a single year these can be carried over to subsequent years but where no additional sites are purchased in the year a charge will be levied for continued access to the system (see 0 sites in the table) to cover annual charges.