Recruiting Outside Resources

A graduate student working in a government funded lab has made an important discovery, on his own initiative, which his advisor believes to warrant further analysis.  The student wants to perform this analysis himself because it would give him an opportunity to learn the techniques involved.  A commercial lab can perform the analysis much more quickly, however, and at low cost.  Besides, the advisor does not consider it particularly worthwhile for the student to learn these analytical techniques.  How should the advisor have the analysis performed?