Need Ballpark Labor Costs Quote

I know a blog post isn’t really the best way to ask this question (especially cause my readership is pretty low right now) but I’ll try anyhow. My organization is about to embark on its first-ever, relatively large online learning project. The department driving the endeaver is looking mostly to our internal web design department and will most likely do everything on static html pages. (While they build nice websites, they know nothing about training or learning.) I’m wishing and hoping for more…

For starters we have, let’s say, 400 slides worth of content that we need to get online in some kind of modular format. I would like to see it in small, bite-sized pieces - maybe in Flash or something. I want them to look good. Where appropriate, I would like to add some true interactivity (not just clicking on an arrow, but maybe scenario-based branching). The interactive element has not been considered thus far and would need to be developed by working with SMEs.

Based on my extremely crude description of this job, can anyone give me a ballpark idea of what something like this costs these days? We would be wanting to hire an outside consultant who has their own tools. If you do this kind of work or you have had this work done, please send me an email with some ideas. I’m not looking for any kind of true estimate, just something I can take to them and say, “Hey, for something like X, we might be able to hire someone to do something really great instead of slapping this stuff up on a website.