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70 -- GENERAL PURPOSE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT POC Helen Jones (202) 942-4998, Rosetta Wright-Samuel (202) 942-4996 E-MAIL: jonesh@sec.gov, Jonesh@sec.gov. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires a full text dial-up information retrieval service that provides access and data retrieval electronically. The service must provide legal, tax, financial and similar professional information for all SEC organizations. The selected source must provide full text, dial-up retrieval service from a range of legal, tax, financial and related professional information. At a minimum, the information should be based on periodicals, newspaper, magazines, government data, wire services files, newsletters and similar professional sources on issues that include environment and energy, U.S. and international trade and business, financial and business data by company, intellectual property and patents, banking, automated data procession, management, biographical, technologies, science and medicine advertising and public relations, accounting, and commodities. The service should 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 associations publications. The service must also include the U.S. Code of Federal laws and state laws in a codified format. The selected source will provide the require dial-up information on microcomputers owned by the SEC, in addition, the dial-up service will include a high speed connection to the SEC's local Area Network for multiple concurrent access to the information retrieval service. The SEC intends to obtain these services from Lexis/Nexis, Division of Reed Elesevier Inc. 1150 18th St., Suite 600, Washington, D.C. 20036 through an Interagency Agreement with the Library of Congress Fedlink Program for the period of October 1, 1998 through September 30, 1999. See Note 22 Posted 08/10/98 (W-SN234982). (0222)

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