The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) intends to award a firm fixed price one-year contract on a sole source basis to Thomson Financial, I/B/E/S International, Inc., One Station Place, Stamford, CT 06902. Thomson Financial, I/B/E/S will provide an analyst-by-analyst historical earnings estimate database to meet the Commission?s requirements. This service should include the following information:I/B/E/S U.S. Summary Data via Compustat: a database containing current forward-looking U.S. consensus analysts? earnings estimates, along with average, median, and deviation from estimates. Data consist of a monthly, consensus-level synopsis. This data will be received over the Standard and Poor?s Compustat dedicated terminal. I/B/E/S U.S. Rewind: A GUI front-end comprehensive database of historical consensus quarterly and annual earnings estimates, along with long-term growth estimates for U.S. companies from 1976 to the present. The database, updated monthly and adjusted for splits and corporate

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