Advice sought on translation price quote

["Baotong Gu" <engbgu -at- langate -dot- gsu -dot- edu>]

Hi, All,
 
I have a question about translation jobs, and I'd appreciate any advice you could give. 
 
I was contacted for a translation job (from Chinese into English) and asked to give the client a quote. The documents are rather technical documents (pharmaceutical-related legal contracts and related documents). The client needed it rather fast, as in about three days. The whole thing totals about 20,000 Chinese characters. 
 
My question is: what do you think would be a fair quote? Each character? Each page? A flat rate?
 
Any advice you can offer would be highly appreciated.
 
B. Gu
 
 

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