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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 information is required for the Securities and Exchange Commission Headquarters in Washington D.C. and regional and district offices, for the period of one year. The selected source shall provide dial-up retrieval service from a range of legal, tax, financial and similar professional information. At a minimum, the information should be based on laws, regulations, 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 should also provide legal information including federal and state case law, federal orders, U.S. Code legislative history, administrative law and tax law information to include state and federal tax case law. In addition the service should provide information on federal and state laws concerning bankruptcy, communications, education, energy, environmental 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. In order to meet this information requirement, the SEC intends to obtain Westlaw electronic dial-up information retrieval service from West Publishing Company, Inc., P.O. Box 64833, St. Paul, MN 55164. The SEC will contract for the service through the Library of Congress' FEDLINK, under an Interagency Agreement. The SEC has selected West Publishing because (1) Westlaw meets the government's minimum information needs and (2) significant savings are achieved by the government through a FEDLINK group rate for all participanting Federal Agencies. Additionally, the SEC has selected the fixed rate program which will provide Westlaw service on an unlimited basis at an annual flat fee. During the period of performance, West Publishing will provide the required dial-up information on micro-computers owned 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 Westlaw information retrieval service. See Note 22. Posted 12/22/98 (W-SN282815). (0356)

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