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70 -- GENERAL PURPOSE ADP EQUIPMENT, SOFTWARE, SUPPLIES & SUPPORT EQUIP MENT POC Rosetta Wright-Samuel, Contract Specialist, (202)942-4996, Jean L. Ryan, Contracting Officer, (202)942-4990. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires a source for dial-up news retrieval and stock quotations in support of enforcement and requlatory activities. The Contractor shall provide dial-up retrieval of news not more than ninety (90) days old and as recent as one to two minutes along with stock quotations that provide a minumum 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 minumum, 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 shall 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 foreignve (65) composite indexes. The capability must 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 that Dow Jones Company, P.O. Box 300, Princeton, N.J., 08543, is the only source capable of meeting the Commission's requirements. Accordingly, the Commission intends to obtain these services from Dow Jones and Company through an Interagency Agreement with the Library of Congress FEDLINK Program for the period October 1, 1995 through September 30, 1996. See Note 22. (0003)

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