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D -- ADP NEWS SERVICES SOL 9625516 due 091595. Contact Point, Darren Franklin, Contract Specialist, 202/416-2638. Notice of Intent to issue an order for the renewal of a full text dial-up information retrieval service that provide access and data retrieval electronically. The service must provide legal, tax, financial, and similar professional information for the Thrift Depositor Protection (TDP) Oversight Board. The selected source must provide full text, dial-up retrieval professional information. At a minimum, the information should be based on periodicals, newspapers, magazines, government data, wire service files, newsletters, and similar professional sources on issues that includes U.S. and international trade and business, financial and business by company, intellectual property and banking, automated data processing, management, and biographical technologies, environment and energy science and medicine, advertising and public relations, accounting and commodities. The service must 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 association publications. The service must also include the U.S. Code of federal laws and state laws in a codified format. In order to meet this information requirement, the TDP Oversight Board intends to renew services for Lexis-Nexis full text dial-up information retrieval service from Lexis-Nexis, Inc. The period of performance for this service is October 1, 1995, through June 30, 1996. The TDP Oversight Board will contract for the service through the Library of Congress, FEDLINK, under an interagency agreement. Written responses, including prices and descriptions containing sufficient technical documentation to establish a bona fide capability to meet the requirement must be received by this office within fifteen (15) calendar days after publication of this notice. No contract award will be made on the basis of any responses to this notice. Publication of this notice will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to issue a competitive procurement. A synopsis of intent to place an order shall not be considered a request for proposals. (242)

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