Consequences I have experienced, in increasing order of severity:

1)  Incremental payments on award withheld until report received.

2)  PI gets no continuation.

3)  PI gets no further funding from that agency.

4)  Institution gets sued for the research $ invested (industrial
contractor -- agreement language signed by someone other than myself!).

5)  Agency withholds all payments on ALL contracts to institution until
report is received (Yes, it really happened -- PI could not comprehend that
a contract is different from a grant, and the requirement for quarterly
reports really meant four times a year, by the specified date!  When the
dean's contract was affected, the PI got a lesson!)

But the most telling consequence should be:  Publish or Perish!  In these
days of computers, editing a report into a paper, or vice-versa, is so
simple that two birds can be killed with one click of the mouse!

Chuck

At 12:57 PM 7/25/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Okay, so just what *are* all  the consequences of delinquent reports to
>sponsors?
>
>I have a few ideas (triggering an audit; bad relations with sponsor etc),
>but I'm writing an article for our research newsletter and would love to
>hear from the group (Your institution will not be named in the article).
>Please reply either to the list or to me on the side (xxxxxx@iit.edu).
>Horror stories welcome!
>Thanks.
>-Glenn
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>Illinois Institute of Technology
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