MOTION FOR PROTEST COSTS GRANTED IN PART: July 14, 1993
                                                               
 
 
                         GSBCA 12221-C(12012-P)
 
                     FEDERAL COMPUTER CORPORATION,
 
                                           Protester,
 
                                   v.
 
                        DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY,
 
                                           Respondent.
 
        Gerard  F. Doyle  and  Scott  A. Ford  of  Doyle &  Bachman,
   Washington, DC, counsel for Protester.
 
        Ellen  D.  Washington,  Information  Technology  Acquisition
   Center,  Department  of  the Navy,  Washington,  DC,  counsel for
   Respondent.
 
   Before Board Judges DANIELS (Chairman), LaBELLA, and PARKER.
 
   DANIELS, Board Judge.
 
        After  the  Board  granted  a  protest  brought  by  Federal
   Computer  Corporation (FCC),  Centel  Federal  Systems,  Inc.  v.
   Department of the Navy, GSBCA 12011-P, et al., 93-2 BCA   25,648,
   1992  BPD     359,  this  prevailing party  filed  a  motion  for
   reimbursement of the costs it incurred in filing  and prosecuting
   the case.  FCC requested that  the Board award it $259,618.21  --
   $240,427.50  in attorney fees and $19,190.71 in expenses incurred
   by counsel for deposition and  hearing transcripts, photocopying,
   and other litigation-related services.  
 
        The Department  of the Navy, respondent, does not oppose the
   motion.
 
        We have independently reviewed the request and conclude that
   with one small exception which is described below, it is properly
   documented and reasonable in light of the complexity of the case.
   We consequently grant the motion in large part.  
 
        FCC  has separately  moved the Board  for award  of proposal
   preparation  costs  in  the amount  of  $2,706,620.50.    We have
   authorized the  Navy to  review this request  and respond  to it.
   The instant  decision does  not address  this particular  matter.
   Among the attorney fees requested as protest costs  are $1,687.50
   stemming  from legal research  into the allowability  of proposal
   preparation costs.  We defer until a later date, when those costs
   are reviewed,  the question  whether to  reimburse FCC  for these
   fees.
 
 
                                Decision
 
        FCC's motion  for an  award of protest  costs is  GRANTED IN
   PART.  We award to FCC $257,930.71, to be paid, without interest,
   from the  permanent indefinite  judgment fund,  31 U.S.C.    1304
   (1988).  40 U.S.C.   759(f)(5)(C) (1988).
 
                                      _________________________
                                      STEPHEN M. DANIELS
                                      Board Judge
 
   We concur:
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   VINCENT A. LaBELLA                 ROBERT W. PARKER
   Board Judge                        Board Judge