U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, Procurement and Contracts Branch, Room 2418, Mail Stop O-20, 6432 General Green Way, Alexandria, Va. 22312.

70 -- LOST AND STOLEN SECURITIES SOL SECHQ1-95-R-0001 POC Arza Gardner, Contract Specialist, (202)942-4997, Jean Ryan, Contracting Officer, (202) 942-4990. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is required under the Federal securities laws to operate and maintain a data base of lost, stolen, missing, and counterfeit securities and to make information concerning those securities available to approximately 22,100 brokers, dealers, banks insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, registered transfer agents, and others that are required by law to participate in this program. The SEC is authorized under the law to designate an outside entity to provide services to operate and maintain this data base. The participated period of performance is October 1, 1995, through September 30, 1996, with four one-year options. Based on statistics for 1994, approximately 3.2 million securities certificates annually are reported lost, stolen, missing, or counterfeit by participating institutions. The average daily number of securities certificates inquired upon by participating institutions is approximately 25,000. Proposed systems must be capable of storing a cumulative data base of lost, stolen, missing, and counterfeit securities valued at more than $96 efficient, and accurate. This system will be operated at no cost to the Government. The contractor will be compensated for its services by directly assessing reporting institutions. All fees charged participating institutions, however, must be determined reasonable by the Government. Also, the SEC expects to hold a pre-proposal conference. Interested firms may request copy of the RFP by letter, telefax, or telegram, telephone requests will not be honored. (0115)

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