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D -- TIMESHARING SERVICES SOL DE-AD01-98AD74002 DUE 043098 POC Patricia E. Wyatt, Contract Specialist, 202/426-0133, or David Tyma, Contracting Officer, 202/426-0130 The US Department of Energy intends to award a sole source delivery order to West Services, Inc. against their Library of Congress Master contract for access to Westlaw legal research timesharing services. This is a renewal of these services. This is a notice of intent, and not a request for competitive proposals. Interested parties that feel they can provide these services may respond by submitting their capability statement to the address in this notice, including prices. All submissions must be received within fifteen (15) days of the publication date of this synopsis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. See Note(s): 22. (0098)

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