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H -- ACCESS TO FINANCIAL INFORMATION SERVICES SOL SECHQ1-96-R-0006 POC Vernessa Younger, Contract Specialist, (202)942-4999, Jean L. Ryan, Contracting Officer, (202)942-4990. The Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC) requires a domestic data base and a foreign data base containing both current and historical financial data. The data shall be updated weekly for the domestic data base and monthly for the foreign data base and provide comprehensive coverage for the past 20 years(domestic data base) and the past 10 years(foreign data base). The data will be accesssible through menu-driven software in a DOS Windows environment, which can be accessed off-line by personal computer. The SEC intends to award a five-year contract to Standard & Poor's Compustat Services Inc. for these financial data bases. This data base requires standard data definitions and financial data conformity to such definitions. See Numbered Note(s): 22. (0128)

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