National Survey of Academic Research Instruments and Instrumentation Needs: Cycle IV (FY93 Pre-funding)

该合同将在1992-1995年期间进行全国学术研究仪器和仪器需求调查第四周期的第一和第二阶段。这项调查是对高等教育机构的抽样调查，将分两个阶段进行。第一阶段将只收集和处理部门/设施调查问卷，该问卷将调查至少包含一个价值20,000美元或以上的研究仪器系统的学术部门或非部门研究单位。在第二阶段，承包商将收集和处理全面调查，其中包括部门/设施调查表和设备调查表，设备调查表将用于收集抽样部门/设施内研究仪器系统样本的数据。样品仅限于原始购买价格在20,000美元或以上的仪器。第四周期的承包商任务将包括进行数据收集活动、编制数据结果表、根据需要为国家科学基金会自己对数据的分析使用提供技术支持；并制作总结研究结果的最终分析报告。第96届国会（公法96-44，第7节）指示NSF“……制定美国科学仪器状况的指数、相关指标或其他适当的措施或指标，以及当前和预计的科学和技术仪器需求。”这项研究是为响应上述任务而发起的，旨在衡量学术机构的仪器需求和国家科研设备盘存方面的变化和趋势。

This contract is to conduct Phases I and II of Cycle IV of the National Survey of Academic Research Instruments and Instrumentation Needs during the period 1992-1995. This survey, a sample survey of higher education institutions, will be conducted in two phases. Phase I will collect and process only the department/facility survey questionnaire, which will survey academic departments or nondepartmental research units that contain at least one research instrument system costing $20,000 or more. During Phase II the contractor will collect and process the full-scale survey, which consists of both the department/ facility questionnaire, and an equipment questionnaire which will be used to collect data for samples of research instrument systems within sampled departments/facilities. The sample shall be limited to instruments with an original purchase price of $20,000 or more. Contractor tasks for Cycle IV will include conduct of data collection activities, tabulation of data results, provision of technical support as required for the National Science Foundation's own analytical uses of the data, and production of final analytical reports summarizing the results of the study. The 96th Congress (Public Law 96-44, Section 7) directed NSF to "...develop indices, correlates, or other suitable measures or indicators of the status of scientific instrumentation in the United States and of the current and projected need for scientific and technological instrumentation." This study, initiated in response to the above mandate, measures changes and trends in the instrumentation needs and the national inventory of scientific research equipment in academic institutions.