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           DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE:  December 22, 1992   
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                             GSBCA 12212-P 
 
                   SPREAD INFORMATION SCIENCES, INC.,
 
                                           Protester,
 
                                   v.
 
                        DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY,
 
                                           Respondent.
 
 
        Jeff Wang,  President of Spread Information  Sciences, Inc.,
   Bayside, NY, appearing for Protester. 
 
        COL Riggs L. Wilks, Jr., MAJ Charles R. Marvin, Jr. and CAPT
   Sophia  L.  Rafatjah,   Office  of  the  Chief   Trial  Attorney,
   Department of the Army, Arlington, VA, counsel for Respondent.
 
   LaBELLA, Acting Chief Board Judge.
 
                                 ORDER
 
        On December 7, 1992, Spread Information Sciences, Inc. filed
   this  protest against the  Department of the  Army's solicitation
   DABT60-91-R-0046.     Protester  alleges   respondent  improperly
   prohibited it  from submitting a  best and final offer  (BAFO) in
   this  procurement.   Protester was  previously  removed from  the
   competitive range, and the procurement  was reopened for a second
   round of  BAFO's.  The  Board decided in an  earlier protest that
   the  actions of  the agency  in  so removing  protester from  the
   competitive  range were not  reviewable because a  timely protest
   was not filed  with the Board.  Spread  Information Science, Inc.
   v. Department of  the Army, GSBCA 11997-P, 1992  BPD   244 (Sept.
   11, 1992). 
 
        As protester is  not in the  competitive range, on  December
   15,  respondent  filed  a  motion  to  dismiss  for  lack  of  an
   interested party.   In lieu of filing a response  to this motion,
   on December 18, protester asked the Board to dismiss its protest.
   Respondent 
 
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   has no  objection to this  request.  Accordingly this  protest is
   DISMISSED WITHOUT  PREJUDICE.   The dismissal will  convert to  a
   dismissal with prejudice  if the protest is not reinstated within
   forty-eight hours of receipt of this dismissal order.
 
                                                                    
                                     VINCENT A. LaBELLA
                                     Acting Chief Board Judge