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70 -- GENERAL PURPOSE ADP EQUIPMENT, SOFTWARE, SUPPLIES & SUPPORT EQUIPMENT. SOL SECHQ1-97-R-0003 DUE 110696 POC Helen Jones, (202) 942-4998, James L. Vandecar (202) 942-8640. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) intends to award a sole source contract to Dow Jones News Service for dial-up news retrieval and stock quotations in support of enforcement and requlatory activities. The contractor must provide dial-up retrieval of news not more than ninety(90) days old and as recent as one to two minutes along with stock quotations that provide a minimum 15-minute delay on quotes of common stocks with a news alert feature to indicate associated stories concerning a recall capability of at least one year. The information will be retrieved on existing Commission-owned microcomputers. At a minimum, the information shall consist of dial-up business and economic news from such sources as the Dow Jones News Service Wire and selected stories condensed from the Wall Street Journal and Barrons. The sources must be easily searched in such catagories as companies, industries, etc. Further, the dial-up retrieval must include common stock quotations that show preferred stocks, warrants, corporate and foreign bonds, mutual funds, U.S. Treasury issues and options. The historical averages should include daily high, low, close and volume available for the last trading year for industriales, transportation, utilities, and a minimum of sixty-five (65) composite indexes. The capability must also be provided to retrieve other market-related information, i.e., text search, S&P earnings, etc., that the Commission would deem critical in enhancing the above-described requirements. The Commission has determined that Dow Jones and Company, P.O. Box 300, Princeton, N.J., 08543, is the only source capable of meeting the Commission's requirements. Accordingly, the Commission intends to obtain these services from Dow Jones and Company through an Interagency Agreement with the Library of Congress FEDLINK Program for the period October 1, 1996 through September 30, 1997. See Note 22. (0312)

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