Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AO), Office of Information Technology, Technology Policy, Planning and Acquisitions Office, IT Contracting, 1 Columbus Circle NE, Room 3-170, Washington, DC 20544

D -- ON-LINE LEGAL RESEARCH SERVICES POC Ms. Penny Starliper (202) 502-2334 This is notice of intent that the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AOUSC) intends to extend its competitively awarded contract for computer-assisted legal and other informational research (CALR) services with West Group for four additional years on a sole source basis. The AOUSC continues to have a requirement for a contract to provide up-to-date, comprehensive, consolidated, and searchable on-line, full-text, CALR services. The contractor must be capable of providing unlimited access to CALR information from locations throughout the continental United States, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Saipan. The CALR services must contain text databases with substantial depth in both legal/law-related and general databases, as well as with substantial depth in specialized information. The CALR services must include full-featured search and retrieval capability within individual databases and across databases. The CALR services must be able to meet these requirements in three categories of research services: (1) legal research services, including citation services and the building, maintaining, and providing access to private databases; (2) newspapers and journals databases and related services; and (3) people and public record databases and related services. The scope of the requirements includes on-line access to relevant databases for a broad, nationwide judiciary user community, both through software (both network-capable and for standalone access) and through the Internet. The scope also includes user and system support; nationwide on-site training; training and support documentation; and management reporting related to usage and cost of CALR services. The scope of support requirements is for 24-hours per day, seven days per week. As a result of analyzing responses to this synopsis of intent, the Contracting Officer may determine that a solicitation will be issued. Any such solicitation will be synopsized separately. Interested parties shall submit pricing informationand technical capabilities to the above address, Attn: Penny Starliper within 15 days of publication of this notice in the CBD. Offerors who fail to include the above information shall not be considered. Posted 10/07/99 (W-SN389792). (0280)

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