D -- ELECTRONIC DIAL-UP INFORMATION RETRIEVEL SERVICE

Notice Date

November 21, 2000

Contracting Office

U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, Procurement And Contracts Branch, Mail Stop O-20, 6432 General Green Way, Alexandria, Virginia 22312

ZIP Code

22312

Solicitation Number

N/A

Response Due

December 6, 2000

Point of Contact

Joan Johnson, Purchasing Agent 202/942/4984 Rosetta Wright-Samuel, Contracting Officer 202/942/4996

Description

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires a full text dial-up and internet information retrieval service that provides access and data retrieval electronically. The information is required for the SEC Headquarters in Washington, DC and regional and district offices for the period of one year. The service shall provide legal, tax, financial and similar professional information. At a minimum, the information shall be based on laws, regulations, rulings, professional publications, periodicals, newspapers, magazines, government data, national and international wire service files, newsletters and similar professional sources on issues that include environment and energy, U.S. and International trade and business, financial and business data antitrust, civil rights, intellectual property and patents, banking, automated data processing, management, technologies, science and medicine, advertising and public relations, and commodities. The service shall also provide legal information including federal and state case law, federal orders, U.S. Code legislative history, administrative law and tax law information to include state and federal tax case law. In addition the service shall provide information on federal and state laws concerning bankruptcy, communications, education, energy, environmental law, family financial, first amendment, government contracts, health, immigration, insurance, intellectual property, international trade and law, labor and employment, legal services, litigation, products liability, real property, science and technology securities, Social Security, taxation, transportation and worker's compensation. In order to meet this information requirement, the SEC intends to obtain Westlaw Electronic Dial-up Information Retrieval Service from West Publishing Company, Inc., P.O. Box 64833, 620 Opperman Drive, St. Paul, MN 55164. The SEC will contract for the service through the Library of Congress' FEDLINK, under an Interagency Agreement. The SEC has selected West Publishing because Westlaw meets the government's minimum information needs and in addition, significant savings are achieved by the government through a FEDLINK group rate for all participating Federal Agencies. Additionally, the SEC has also selected the fixed rate program that will provide Westlaw service on an unlimited basis at an annual flat fee. During the period of performance, West Publishing 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 the SEC's Local Area Network for multiple concurrent access to the Westlaw Information Retrieval Service. Note 22 applies.

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20001124/DSOL005.HTM (W-326 SN5071V2)