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D -- TIMESHARING SERVICE SOL DE-AD01-97AD73007 DUE 043097 POC Patricia E. Wyatt, Contract Specialist, 202/426-0133 Leonard J. Pastore, Contracting Officer, 202/426-0135. The U.S. Department of Energy intends to award a sole source delivery order to Knight-Ridder Information, Inc. against the Library of Congress master contract for commercial timesharing services. This Delivery Order will provide access with a powerful search capability to over 280 databases covering virtually every subject area. This is a notice of intent and not a request for proposal. If your company believes that they can meet these requirements, they can forward a capability statement to the address in this notice, including prices. All submissions must be received within fifteen days of the publication date. A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely the discretion of the Government. See Numbered Note(s): 22. (0104)

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