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               DISSMISSED WITH PREJUDICE:  March 4, 1993
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                         GSBCA 12286-P, 12290-P
 
 
                  BELLSOUTH TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC.,
 
                                  and
 
                      NEW YORK TELEPHONE COMPANY,
 
                                                        Protesters,
 
                                   v.
 
                        DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY,
 
                                                        Respondent,
 
                                  and     
 
                           CONTRACT SERVICES,
 
                                  and
 
                              MITEL, INC.,
 
                                  and
                        
                       DIGITAL VOICE CORPORATION,
 
                                  and
 
                  WILTEL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.,
 
                                                       Intervenors.
 
        James J. Regan, Robert M. Halperin, Kathryn D. Kirmayer, and
   Peter J. Lipperman of Crowell and Moring, Washington, DC, counsel
   for Protesters.
 
        Ellen  D.  Washington,   Office  of  the   General  Counsel,
   Information  Technology  Acquisition  Center, Department  of  the
   Navy, Washington, DC, counsel for Respondent.
 
        William Barton, Jr., John R.  Tolle, and William T. Welch of
   Barton, Mountain  & Tolle,  McLean, VA,  counsel for  Intervenors
   Contract Services and Mitel, Inc.
 
        Victor G.  Klingelhofer of  Cohen &  White, Washington,  DC,
   counsel for Intervenor Digital Voice Corporation.
 
        David  W. Burgett  and Thomas  L.  McGovern III  of Hogan  &
   Hartson,  Washington,   DC,   counsel   for   Intervenor   WilTel
   Communications Systems, Inc.
 
   HENDLEY, Board Judge.
 
                                 ORDER
 
        On February  4  and February  5,  1993, the  Board  docketed
   protests filed by BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc. (BellSouth),
   under  solicitation   number  N66032-92-R-0005,   and  New   York
   Telephone Company (New York Telephone), under solicitaiton number
   N66032-92-R-0004,  respectively.  Both protested the terms of the
   solicitations  which were issued by respondent, the Department of
   the Navy, calling for the purchase of switching systems for Naval
   Stations in Mobile, Alabama; Pascagoula, Mississippi; and  Staten
   Island,   New  York.     The   protesters   contended  that   the
   solicitations were unduly  restrictive by requiring a  PBX system
   to the exclusion of a Centrex system.
 
        On February 9, 1993, we held a prehearing conference for the
   purpose of establishing a  plan for further proceedings  in these
   protests.  
 
        In their protest  complaints, the protesters sought  to have
   the respondent's  delegation of  procurement authority  suspended
   pending  the Board's decision on the  merits of the case.  During
   the  prehearing conference, respondent elected not to contest the
   suspension, and we suspended the  procurements at that time.  The
   parties proceeded with discovery.  A merits hearing was scheduled
   for March 15, 1993.
 
        On  March 2,  1993, the  Board  received a  joint motion  to
   dismiss  both protests with  prejudice, signed by  each protester
   and  respondent.   The   joint    motion sets    out a    list of
   admissions and 
   representations which the protesters seek to have included in our
   dismissal order.   We  decline to  do so  because to  do so  adds
   nothing  to  their agreement,  which  stands  on  its own.    The
   intervenors   are  not  parties  to  the  joint  motions  or  the
   protesters' and the respondent's settlement of the protests. 
 
 
        Accordingly,  the joint motion  to dismiss is  granted.  The
   protests  are  DISMISSED  WITH  PREJUDICE.    Rule  28(a).    The
   suspension  of   the  respondent's   delegation  of   procurement
   authority lapses by its own terms.
 
                                 _______________________________
                                 JAMES W. HENDLEY
                                 Board Judge