[labnetwork] Fab invoice payment terms & repercussions of non-payment

[Nava Ariel- Sternberg]

Hi Vito,

Here are the answers relevant for TAU, Israel:


  1.  At what frequency do you issue your invoices?
Monthly

  1.  How long after an invoice has been issued must it be paid?
TAU customers - optimally immediately, in practice - until the next invoice received.

  1.  What course of action do you take if the invoice is not paid?
At first we try to help the PIs find a way to pay. Phone conversations, emails etc. Eventually, after a few months of invoices not paid and a building up depth - suspend the PI group's access to the facility. For companies, after a few warnings we suspend their access or stop performing work for them.

  1.  Are you ever faced with having to suspend a PI's facility access?
Yes, once.

  1.  If the answer to 4 is yes, what level of authority within your organization is required to enforce this suspension: Facility Manager or Director? Facility Faculty Director? Dean? Other?
Facility managing director.

  1.  If you've been through a PI suspension, what was the impact on the students in the PI's research group?
This specific PI didn't have students working in the fab, he was ordering process jobs to be performed by the facility staff...

Hope this helps.

Nava


Nava Ariel-Sternberg, Ph.D.
Tel-Aviv University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Managing Director
MNCF Manager
Phone: 03-640-5619
Mobile: 054-9984959
Email: anava at tauex.tau.ac.il<mailto:anava at tauex.tau.ac.il>

From: labnetwork-bounces at mtl.mit.edu [mailto:labnetwork-bounces at mtl.mit.edu] On Behalf Of Vito Logiudice
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 12:10 AM
To: labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu
Subject: [labnetwork] Fab invoice payment terms & repercussions of non-payment

Dear Colleagues,

I would appreciate hearing about the policy in place at your respective facilities regarding your fab invoice payment terms. We're working on a formal policy here and I would value our community's input.

Specifically, I'd like to hear from you on the following points. Any other relevant insights are of course welcome.

  1.  At what frequency do you issue your invoices?
  2.  How long after an invoice has been issued must it be paid?
  3.  What course of action do you take if the invoice is not paid?
  4.  Are you ever faced with having to suspend a PI's facility access?
  5.  If the answer to 4 is yes, what level of authority within your organization is required to enforce this suspension: Facility Manager or Director? Facility Faculty Director? Dean? Other?
  6.  If you've been through a PI suspension, what was the impact on the students in the PI's research group?
Thank you much.

Regards,
Vito
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Vito Logiudice  MASc, PEng
Director of Operations, Quantum NanoFab
University of Waterloo
Lazaridis QNC 1207
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Email: vito.logiudice at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:vito.logiudice at uwaterloo.ca>
Website: https://fab.qnc.uwaterloo.ca

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