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70 -- GENERAL PURPOSE ADP EQUIPMENT, SOFTWARE, SUPPLIES & SUPPORT SOL PCHQ980168 DUE 110397 POC Helen Jones, (202) 942-4998, or James L. Vandecar, (202) 942-8640 The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)intends to award a sole source contract to West Publishing for FY98 for full text dial-up information retrieval services. The following service is required for SEC Headquarters in Washington, D.C. and regional and district offices. Item 1. The contractor must provide dial-up retrieval service from a range of legal, tax, financial and similar professional information. At a minimum, the information shall be based on laws, requlations, rulings, professional publications, periodicals, newspapers, magazines, government data, national and international wire service files, newsletters and similar professional sources on issues that include environment and energy, U.S. and international trade and business, financial and business data, antitrust, civil rights, intellectual property and patents, banking, automated data processing, management, technologies, science and medicine, advertising and public relations, accounting and commodities. The service shall also providelegal information including federal and state case law, federal orders, U.S. Code legislative history, administrative and tax law information to include state and federal tax case law. In addition the service shall provide information on federal and state laws concerning bankruptcy, communications, education, energy, envirnmental law, family, financial, first amendment, government contracts, health, immigration, insurance,intellectual property, international trade and law, labor and employment, legal services, litigation, products liability, real property, science and technology, securities, Social Security, taxation, transportation, and worker compensation. Item 2. The contractor shall provide dial-up retrieval service of comprehensive information relative to civil, criminal and financial investigations. The service shall provide information to undercover assets of business and individuals, locate people, determine the relations between individuals and business, obtain background on companies, search publicrecords and retrieve documents in any U.S. jurisdiction. The SEC intends to obtain these services from West Publishing, 620 Opperman Drive, Post Office Box 64833, St. Paul, MN 55164, through an Interagency Agreement with the Library of Congress' Fedlink. The contractor shall provide the dial-up information on SEC-owned micro-computers and shall include a hgh speed connection to the SEC's Local Area Network for concurrent access to the selected information retrieval service. See Note 22. (0289)

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