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D -- ON-LINE SERVICES DUE 092497 POC Jim Morgan, Tel.: (202) 619-4363 This synopsis is a notification of intent to enter into a sole source procurement using simplified acquisition procedures (FAR) Part 13, for the PolicyFile online service of Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., and in accordance with the FAR subpart 6.302-1 (only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirement). PolicyFile consists of computerized, indexed access, via the World Wide Web, to abstracts of some 15,000 public policy documents from approximately 200 think tanks, university research institutes, and similar organizations. If any other publisher or vendor can provide these products which are extremely valuable to American libraries/information resource centers worldwide, please give a written notification to the Contracting Officer stated in this notice within 20 calendar days from the date of this synopsis. Contracting Officer: Eloise Eskridge, 202-619-5521, U.S. Information Agency, Office of Information Resources (I/G), 301 4th St., SW, Washington, DC 20547. This is not a formal solicitation -- This notice may represent the only official notice of this proposed procurement. (0247)

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