Category
Funding
Owner
CERN
Risk Summary
Flexibility of CERN project budget lost
Risk Detail
The project nature of the CERN LCG budget is important, the risk is this becomes a yearly materials budget.
Effect
Cannot adapt spending to often changing and unpredictable LHC parameters and requirements, and also follow the unpredictable hardware market pricing, losing the ability to purchase at opportune times.
Mitigation
Work with RPC to keep the project nature of the budget.
Risk
Risk Impact
4
Risk Likelihood
2
Risk Severity
8