BRDPI Cover Letter

Biomedical Research & Development Price Index (BRDPI): Survey System

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Welcome Bureau of Economic Analysis! Please read the following below and click continue.

Dear BRDPI Administrator:
Thank you for your assistance with responding to the brief survey conducted by the Bureau of
Economic Analysis, Department of Commerce (BEA) on behalf of the NIH. The data requested will
be used to update the expenditure weights needed to compute the Biomedical Research and
Development Price Index (BRDPI).
As outlined in the email request to your institution, the BRDPI is an index of prices paid for the
labor, supplies, equipment, and other inputs required to perform the biomedical research the NIH
supports in its intramural laboratories and through its awards to extramural organizations. The
index is needed for planning future NIH programs, and for developing and justifying the annual NIH
budget request to Congress. For example, annual changes in the BRDPI approximate how much
the total NIH budget should be increased to compensate for price increases and sustain the level
of research effort supported during the previous year.
The online form represents our best effort to limit the burden of this survey. It requests only
information that is absolutely necessary to accomplish our goal of producing accurate and reliable
estimates of the BRDPI. The BRDPI, and some supporting details and analyses, will be published.
The collection and use of this information complies with all applicable information quality
guidelines, i.e., those of the Office of Management and Budget, Department of Commerce, and
BEA.
The information provided by the respondents will be held confidential and be used for exclusively
statistical purposes. This pledge of confidentiality is made under the Confidential Information
Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA). Section 512 (on Limitations on Use and
Disclosure of Data and Information) of the Act, provides that "data or information acquired by an
agency under a pledge of confidentiality and for exclusively statistical purposes shall be used by
officers, employees, or agents of the agency under a pledge of confidentiality for exclusively
statistical purposes shall not be disclosed by an agency in identifiable form, for any use other than
an exclusively statistical purpose, except with the informed consent of the respondent."
Responses will be kept confidential and will not be disclosed in identifiable form to anyone other
than employees or agents of BEA without your consent. By law, each employee as well as each
agent is subject to a jail term of up to 5 years, a fine of up to $250,000, or both if he or she makes
public ANY identifiable information that you report about your business or institution.
Please provide the information requested on expenditures made by your institution and reimbursed
by NIH during your 2006 fiscal year. (See the survey glossary on this website.) Please submit your
responses to the survey provided below by September 17, 2007. If you have questions about this
survey, please contact Dr. Steven Payson at 202-606-9788 or by email at
Steven.Payson@bea.gov.
Your participation is very important for maintaining the accuracy and credibility of the BRDPI, and

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your assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your cooperation.
Sincerely,

Norka Ruiz Bravo, Ph.D. Deputy Director for Extramural Research The
National Institutes of Health
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