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R -- LIBRARY SERVICES POC James Mattingly, Contract Specialist, (202) 435-7621 The US Secret Service intends to issue a delivery order against the existing Library of Congress's Basic Ordering Agreement to renew a subscription with LEXIS-NEXIS for the continued use and access of their database. This subscription is for online access to LEXIS/NEXIS and related services which contain an extensive array of databases with nearly 60 million documents and offer a full range of legal, legislative, regulatory, company and financial, medical, news and current affairs information. The LEXIS service includes access to case law, administrative decisions, statutes, regulations, law reviews, specialty publications and more. A comprehensive set of specialized libraries cover more than 30 areas of federal and state practice. In addition, the service houses international law libraries for the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth and France. Libraries and publications in the NEXIS service are global in scope and cover a variety of topics including business, government, finance, politics, technology, and general news. Three libraries are dedicated to federal and state legislation, and to federal and state legislation and to federal executive and campaign materials. Full-text and abstracted medical information are housed in MEDIS. The financial information service includes company and financial information on public and private corporations throughout the world. Service will be continued through September 30, 1996. All responsible sources may respond. WRITTEN RESPONSES SHOULD INCLUDE PRICES AND TECHNICAL DATA SUFFICIENT TO DETERMINE CAPABILITY. No telephone calls will be accepted. The Government will not be responsible for any costs associated with preparing a response to this notice. All responsible sources may respond to this synopsis by submitting pricing data with clear and convincing documents. All responses will be considered in order to acquire the lowest-overall cost alternative to meet the need of the Government. If no affirmative written responses are received within 15 calenday days after the publication of this notice, to the effect that a comparable source is available, an order will be placed with LEXIS-NEXIS. No solicitation document is available and no contract will e awarded solely upon the basis of information submitted in response to this synopsis. (0261)

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