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R -- FEDLINK INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SERVICES DELIVERY ORDER POC Contact, Alice P. Roache, Contract Specialist, or Ronald R. Rouse, Contracting Officer on (301) 344-3174 The USDA, ARS, AFM, PPD, Procurement and Property Branch intends to issue a Fiscal Year 1997 delivery order against an existing Basic Ordering Agreement with the Library of Congress for FEDLINK subscription with Knight-Ridder. The services required include the ability to perform stored searches on a weekly, biweekly, or monthly basis, or at other regular intervals against specific databases in the areas of agriculture, biological sciences, environment, nutrition, water resources, rural conditions, and health. The specific data bases must include: AGRICOLA, Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, CAB Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, Engineering Index, Food Science and Technology Abstracts, Government Reports Announcements, Life Sciences Collection, Water Resources Abstracts, World Textiles, and Zoological Record. In addition there must be the ability to search major domestic daily newspapers from at least half of the fifty states and access to databases containing legal and congressional material. There must be the ability to distribute the results of these searches electronically or by mail at the frequency that each database is updated. Reference Note 22. (0240)

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