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Within our cores, faculty research groups cant do the work unless they provide a valid fund number. WE pull that out of the financial system nightly, and if the fund is not allowed to be charged against, it is removed from the users allowable charge accounts
in our reservation and billing system which is based on NEMO. They cannot do the work on that account and faculty are made aware that they are not allowed to charge other Award/contracts and move charges later. They can charge internal university funds,
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<div>How do other shared user facilites deal with a situation when a regular user research group PI has a funding shortfall and can't pay user fees?</div>
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<div>Is it typical to have some type of temporary waiver mechanism enshrined in the shared user structure or does that PI appeal to their department head to bail them out to bridge a gap?</div>
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<div>A waiver feels problematic because it would seem to violate basic fairness in that one group could be getting "free stuff" and everybody else has to pay.</div>
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<div>I would be interested to hear how other places deal with a sticky situation like this.</div>
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