U.S. Department of Energy, Attn: Document Control Specialist, 1000 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20585

D -- TIMESHARING SERVICES SOL DE-AD01-98AD74001 DUE 043098 POC Patricia E. Wyatt, Contract Specialist, 202/426-0133 or David Tyma, Contracting Officer, 202/426-0130 The US Department of Energy intends to award a sole source delivery order to Lexis-Nexis against the Library of Congress Master Contract for commercial timesharing services. This delivery order will provide access to LEXIS which is an online, full-text legal research service and access to NEXIS which is an online, full-text news research service, which contains over 100 publications. This is a notice of intent and not a request for proposal. Interested parties that feel they can provide these services may respond by submitting their capability statement to the address in this notice, including prices. All submissions must be received within fifteen (15) days of the publication date of this synopsis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. See Note(s): 22. (0098)

Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0031 19980413\D-0002.SOL)