MOTION TO MODIFY ORDER OF
                   DISMISSAL GRANTED: April 26, 1993
                                                      
 
 
                             GSBCA 12382-P
 
 
                          FORTRAN CORPORATION,
 
                                                Protester,
 
                                   v.
 
                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,
 
                                                Respondent.
 
        Victor G. Klingelhofer  and Susan J. Bell of  Cohen & White,
   Washington, DC, counsel for Protester.
 
        Lloyd M.  Weinerman and  Lyman Goon, Office  of the  General
   Counsel,  Department of Health and Human Services, Baltimore, MD,
   counsel for Respondent.
 
   WILLIAMS, Board Judge.
 
                                 ORDER
 
        On April 14,  1993, Fortran Corporation protested  the terms
   of   solicitation  number   HCFA-RFP-93-001-CR   issued  by   the
   Department  of Health and  Human Services' Health  Care Financing
   Administration  for a single site telecommunications service.  On
   April 19, 1993,  in accordance with the parties'  joint motion to
   dismiss, the protest  was dismissed without prejudice  to convert
   to  a dismissal  with prejudice  ten days  from  the date  of the
   order.  On  April 23, 1993, the  parties filed a joint  motion to
   modify  the  order   of  dismissal   to  extend   the  time   for
   reinstatement to sixty days after issuance.
 
        The parties' joint  motion to modify the  order of dismissal
   is  GRANTED.    This  protest  is  DISMISSED  WITHOUT  PREJUDICE.
   Rule 28(a).   This dismissal shall convert  to one with prejudice
   sixty  days from  the  date  of this  order  unless either  party
   requests reinstatement prior to that date.
 
 
 
                                 _____________________________
                                 MARY ELLEN COSTER WILLIAMS
                                 Board Judge