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             DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE:  October 29, 1998
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                              GSBCA 12130
 
 
                        P. J. DICK INCORPORATED,
 
                                           Appellant,
 
                                   v.
 
                    GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION,
 
                                           Respondent.
 
        John T. Flynn of Smith,  Currie & Hancock, Atlanta, GA; Paul
   J. Walstad of Walstad & Babcock, Provo, UT; and Rand L. Allen and
   James J.  Gildea of  Wiley,  Rein  &  Fielding,  Washington,  DC,
   counsel for Appellant.
 
        Sharon  A.  Roach, Gerald  L. Schrader,  Martin A.  Hom, and
   M. Leah  Wright,  Real  Property  Division,  Office   of  General
   Counsel,  General Services  Administration,  Washington, DC,  and
   Kenneth E. Kendell, Office of Regional Counsel, General  Services
   Administration, Philadelphia, PA, counsel for Respondent.
 
   BORWICK, Board Judge.
 
                                 ORDER
 
        On October 19, 1992, the Board received an  appeal, docketed
   as GSBCA 12130, from appellant P.J. Dick relating to its claim of
   $243,723  for the partial termination  for convenience of work on
   the  fourth floor  of  the  United States  Court  House and  Post
   Office,  Pittsburgh, PA.  Appellant had submitted its termination
   for   convenience  credit  proposal   of  $997,677.72,   and  the
   contracting  officer   had  withheld  $1,241,401   from  contract
   payments.   The appeal  was filed  after the  contracting officer
   failed to issue a decision on appellant's claim.   
 
        On November  20, 1992,  the contracting  officer issued  his
   decision on  the credit  for the  terminated work, claiming  that
   appellant owed the  Government $1,824,641.  In  the decision, the
   contracting officer  stated he would deobligate  $997,677.72 from
   the  contract.   P.J. Dick  filed an  appeal from  that decision,
   which was docketed as GSBCA 12215.   The issue in that appeal  is
   whether appellant owes  the Government $826,963.33 more  than the
   termination  for  convenience credit  offered by  P.J. Dick.   On
   December 10,  1992, the Board issued  an order to show  cause why
   GSBCA 12215  should not  be dismissed as  the matter  was already
   before the Board in GSBCA 12130.  
 
 
        The parties did not respond to the show cause order; thus it
   is assumed  that the  parties do not  object to  consolidation of
   issues in one  docket and dismissal of  the other appeal.   It is
   apparent that the  claim presented in GSBCA 12130  is subsumed in
   the claim presented  in GSBCA 12215.  It  would be more efficient
   to  consolidate the  earlier  appeal  which  had  no  contracting
   officer's decision with the later appeal, which has a decision as
   the frame of reference, and dismiss the earlier appeal.  
 
        The appeal of GSBCA 12130 is consolidated with the appeal in
   GSBCA 12215, Rule 26(a)(2), and GSBCA 12130 is DISMISSED  WITHOUT
   PREJUDICE.  
 
 
 
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                                       ANTHONY S. BORWICK
                                       Board Judge