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 RESEARCH SERVICES DUE 032800 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 Lexis-Nexis for four additional years on a sole source basis. The AOUSC continues to have a requirement for this contract to provide up-to-date, comprehensive, consolidated, and searchable on-line, full-text, CALR services in the research category of newspapers and journals databases and related 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 contractor must be capable of providing access to newspapers; trade and professional journals, business and legal journals; and medical journals or medical publications. The CALR services must contain text databases with substantial depth and must include full- featured search and retrieval capability within individual databases and across databases. 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 stand-alone 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. Support is required 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 information and technical capabilities to the above address, Attn: Penny Starliper, within 30 days of publication of this notice in the CBD. Offerors who fail to include the above information shall not be considered. Posted 02/28/00 (W-SN429158). (0059)

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