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R -- ELECTRONIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SERVICES POC Dottie A. Williams, Contracting Officer, (202) 208-3923 The U.S. Department of the Interior intends to renew its subscription for Lexis-Nexis under the Library of Congress'FEDLINK Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) for FY 99. The period of performance shall be from October 1, 1999 through September 30, 2000. This requirement is for on-line acess to Lexis-Nexis and related services which contain an extensive array of databases with nearly 60 million documents and offer a full range of legal, legislative, regulatory, company and financial, medical news and current affairs information. The Lexis service includes access to case law, administrative decisions, statutes, regulations, law reviews, specialty publications and more. A comprehensive set of specialized libraries cover more than 30 areas of federal and state practice. In addition, the service houses international law libraries for the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of France. Libraries and publications in the Nexis service are global in scope and cover a variety of topics including business, government,finance, politics, technology, and general news. Three libraries are dedicated to federal and state legislation, and to federal executive and campaign materials. Full-text and abstracted medical information are housed on MEDIS. The Financial Information service includes company and financial information on public and private corporations throughout the world. Lexis-Nexis also offers Michie/Butterworth Books, and Document Retrieval and Delivery Services. No solicitation document exists. Written responses must include prices and technical data sufficient to determine capability. No telephone calls will be accepted. No award will be based on any offer or proposal received in response to this notice. Posted 09/22/99 (W-SN383207). (0265)

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