DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE: April 20, 1993
                                                         
 
 
                         GSBCA 12245-C(12092-P)
 
 
                           CBIS FEDERAL INC.,
 
                                           Protester,
 
                                   v.
 
                      DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
 
                                           Respondent.
 
        Rand L. Allen, Philip J.  Davis, Stanley R. Soya, Phillip H.
   Harrington,  and  David  A.  Vogel  of  Wiley, Rein  &  Fielding,
   Washington, DC, counsel for Protester.
 
        Alton Woods  and James L.  Weiner, Division of  General Law,
   Office  of the Solicitor, Department of the Interior, Washington,
   DC, counsel for Respondent.  
 
   DANIELS, Board Judge (Chairman).
 
                                 ORDER
 
        On December 31,  1992, CBIS Federal Inc.  (Cincinnati Bell),
   which was the prevailing party in a protest it brought, moved the
   Board  for  an order  requiring  the Department  of  the Interior
   (Interior),  respondent, to pay  protester's costs of  filing and
   pursuing the case.   See CBIS Federal  Inc. v. Department  of the
   Interior,   GSBCA  12092-P,   1992  BPD    386   (Dec. 4,  1992).
   Cincinnati  Bell  asked  the  Board   to  award  it  the  sum  of
   $102,172.25.
 
        Interior responded  by stating that  it does not  oppose the
   motion, but intends to pay  protester the requested sum directly.
   The Government asked  that we take no action on  the motion while
   arrangements for the payments were being made.
 
        On April 15, 1993, Cincinnati Bell informed us that Interior
   has issued a purchase order to  protester for the payment of  all
   requested costs, and that once Cincinnati Bell submits an invoice
   to  the  Government,  payment  can  be  made.    With  Interior's
   concurrence,  Cincinnati  Bell  asked that  we  dismiss  the case
   without prejudice, the dismissal to  become one with prejudice in
   forty-five days.
 
 
        This   case  is  now  DISMISSED  WITHOUT  PREJUDICE  to  its
   reinstatement within forty-five days from the date of this order.
   On the forty-sixth day after this date, the dismissal will become
   one with prejudice.
 
                                      _________________________
                                      STEPHEN M. DANIELS
                                      Board Judge