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70 -- GENERAL PURPOSE ADP EQUIPMENT, SOFTWARE, SUPPLIES & SUPPORT EQUIPMENT SOL SECHQ1-97-R-0004 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 Lexis/Nexis for a full text dial-up information retrieval service that provides access and data retrieval electronically. The service must provide legal, tax, financial and similar professional information for all SEC organizations. The selected source must provide full text, dial-up retrieval service from a range of legal, tax, financial and related professional information. At a minimum, the information should be based on periodicals, newspapers, magazines, government data, wire services files, newsletters and similar professional sources on issues that include environmental and energy, U.S. and international trade and business, financial and business data by company, intellectual property and patents, banking, automated data processing, management, biographical, technologies, science and medicine, advertising and public relations, accounting, and commodities. The service should also provide tax law information to include state and federal case law, related statutory and regulatory materials, Internal Revenue Service releases and publications, and law school and legal associations publications. The service must also include the U.S. Code of federal laws and state laws in a codified format. The selected source will provide the required dial-up information on microcomputers owned by the SEC. In addition, the dial-up service will include a high-speed connection to the SEC's Local Area Network for multiple concurrent access to the information retrieval service. The SEC intends to obtain these services from Lexis/Nexis, Division of Reed Elsevier, Inc., 1150 18th St., Suite 606, Washington, D.C., 20036 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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