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D -- FULL TEXT DIAL-UP INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SERVICE POC Debra Chapman, (202) 942-4994 The Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC) requires a full text dial-up information retrieval service that provides access and data retrieval electronically. The service shall provide legal, tax, financial and similar professional information for all SEC organizations. The selected source shall provide full text, dial-up retrieval service from a range of legal, tax, financial and related professional information. At a minimum, the information should be based on periodicals, newspapers, magazines, government data, wire services files, newsletters and similar professional sources on issues that include environment and energy, U.S. and international trade and business, financial and business data by company, intellectual property and patents, banking, automated data processing, management, biographical, technologies, science and medicine, advertising and public relations, accounting, and commodities. The service should also provide tax law information to include state and federal case law, related statutory and regulatory materials, Internal Revenue Service releases and publications, and law school and legal associations' publications. The service shall include the U.S. Code of federal laws and state laws in a codified format. In order to meet this information requirement, the SEC intends to obtain Lexis/Nexis full text dial-up information retrieval service. The period of performance for this service is one year. The SEC will contract for this service through the Library of Congress' FEDLINK, under an Interagency Agreement. The SEC has selected Nexis/Lexis, 1150 18th st., Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036 because (1) Lexis/Nexis meets the government's minimum information needs, and (2) significant savings are achieved by the government through a FEDLINK group rate for all participating Federal Agencies. Additionally, the SEC has selected the Government Multi-user Capacity Plan pricing option which provides Lexis/Nexis at a fixed price. Lexis/Nexis will provide the required dial-up information on microcomputersowned by the SEC. In addition, the dial-up service will include a high speed connection to the SEC's Local Area Network for multiple concurrent access to the Lexis/Nexis information retrieval service. See Note 22. Posted 12/22/98 (W-SN282736). (0356)

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