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D -- DIAL-UP NEWS RETRIEVAL AND STOCK QUOTATIONS POC Debra Chapman, (202) 942-4994 The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires a source for dial-up news retrieval and stock quotations in support of enforcement and regulatory activities. The selected source must provide dial-up retrieval of news not more than ninety 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 an associated story 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 categories as companies, industries, etc. Further, the dial-up retrieval shall 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 industrials, transportation, utilities, and a minimum of sixty-five composite indexes. The capability shall 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 through market surveys and extensive research in related periodicals and documents that Dow Jones and Company is the only source capable of meeting the above-stated Commission requirements. Accordingly, the Commission intends to obtain these services from Dow Jones and Company, P.O. Box 300, Princeton, NJ 08543 through an Interagency Agreement with the Library of Congress FEDLINK Program for the period of one year. Posted 12/22/98 (W-SN282843). (0356)

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