Please send all agency stop work correspondence to RSP at rspinfo@rsp.wisc.edu. RSP Staff will review the notice and contact you with guidance before taking any additional action. If they have not already been sent the correspondence, please ensure that your supervisor or principal investigator receives a copy.

Generally speaking, these notices convey that all work needs to stop immediately and that no expenses can be incurred on the project as of the date indicated. RSP plans to post a list of affected projects that have received an agency stop work notice here. In some cases, there are only some restrictions being added to the award terms, for example, restrictions on diversity, equity, and inclusion activities.

Please coordinate with RSP (through your assigned accountant) in all stop work situations. We will work to come to a common understanding on what transactions are allowable and what transactions cannot be charged during the stop work period.

Departmental administrators should work with payroll staff to do a complete review of employees who are affected by stop work orders. A careful review of the appointment types will be needed. In some situations, your department may want to consider alternative sources of funding to cover the period of the stop work/suspension. If you have further questions, please coordinate with your Division representatives.

All projects with full stop work orders will be put on Hold in the financial system. Any charges incurred during the period of the stop work/suspension, are not allowable to the project. Charges that were incurred prior to the stop work/suspension but that come through the system after the project is put on Hold will be caught in a budget check. Budget error check review and reconciliation will be done by Business Services and RSP. Any appropriate charges will be allowed to go through.