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              DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE:  January 15, 1993
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                             GSBCA 12254-P
 
                  JAMES W. COLLINS & ASSOCIATES, INC.,
 
                                               Protester,
 
                                   v.
 
                        DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY,
 
                                               Respondent.   
 
 
         James  W.  Collins,   President  of  James  W.   Collins  &
   Associates, Inc., appearing for Protester.
 
         Peter D. Butt, Jr.,  Katherine A. Andrias, and  Geoffrey D.
   Chun, Office of  the General Counsel, Naval  Regional Contracting
   Center, Washington Navy  Yard, and Demetria T. Carter,  Office of
   Counsel,  Naval Supply Systems  Command, Department of  the Navy,
   Washington, DC, counsel for Respondent. 
 
   HENDLEY, Board Judge
 
                                 ORDER
 
        On January  8, 1993, the  Board docketed a protest  filed by
   James W.  Collins &  Associates, Inc. (JWC).   JWC  protested the
   award  of  contract number  N00600-93-C-0437,  under solicitation
   number N00600-92-R-2847, for automatic data processing  equipment
   to another offeror by the respondent, the Department of the Navy.
   JWC alleged that its cost proposals were not properly  evaluated,
   thereby resulting in it being unfairly eliminated as the possible
   lowest bidder.
 
        On January 13, 1993, the respondent telephoned the Board and
   stated that the parties had settled the protest.  On  January 14,
   the Board received  the protester's request for  dismissal, which
   states:  
 
        We have  settled our  dispute with  the Naval  Regional
        Contracting Center  and request the Board  dismiss with
        prejudice at no cost to the Government.
 
        Accordingly,  the protest is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.  Rule
   28(a).
 
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                                JAMES W. HENDLEY
                                Board Judge