GRANTED IN PART:  October 28, 1993
                                                      
        
 
                         GSBCA 12532-C(12420-P)
 
 
                    INTEGRATED SYSTEMS GROUP, INC.,
 
                                                Protester,
 
                                   v.
 
                        DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE,
 
                                                Respondent.
 
        Shelton H.  Skolnick, Judy D.  Leishman, and Amy M.  Hall of
   Skolnick & Leishman, P.C., Derwood, MD, counsel for Protester.
 
        Jerry  A.  Walz  and  Kenneth  A.  Lechter,  Office  of  the
   Assistant General Counsel for Finance  and Litigation, Department
   of Commerce, Washington, DC, counsel for Respondent.
 
   Before Board Judges WILLIAMS, DeGRAFF, and GOODMAN.
 
   GOODMAN, Board Judge.
 
        This protest  was filed  by Integrated  Systems Group,  Inc.
   (ISG or protester) on May  7, 1993, alleging that respondent, the
   Department  of  Commerce  (Commerce  or  respondent),  improperly
   rejected ISG's bid  for computer equipment to be  supplied to the
   National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, North Carolina.   After
   a hearing  on the  merits, we granted  the protest in  a decision
   dated  July  16,   1993.    Integrated  Systems  Group,  Inc.  v.
   Department of Commerce,  GSBCA 12420-P, 1993 BPD    215 (July 16,
   1993).
 
        Under   Board   Rule   35[foot #] 1    and   40   U.S.C.    
   759(f)(5)(C) (1988), the Board may award protest costs, including
   reasonable attorney  fees, to  an "appropriate  interested party"
   when  an  agency  has  violated  a  statute,  regulation, or  the
   conditions   of  a  delegation  of  procurement  authority.    An
   appropriate  interested party has  been defined as  a "prevailing
   party" or "one that has succeeded on any significant issue in the
                                                                    
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        [foot #] 1   48 CFR 6101.35 (1992).
 
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   litigation  that  achieves  some  of the  benefit  it  sought  in
   bringing suit."   Bedford  Computer Corp.,  GSBCA 9837-C(9742-P),
   89-2 BCA   21,827,  at 109,811, 1989 BPD   121, at 3.   ISG is an
   appropriate  interested  party  entitled  to  recover  its  costs
   pursuant to Rule 35 and 40 U.S.C.   759(f)(5)(C) (1988).
 
 
        On August 9, 1993, protester filed its motion for payment of
   protest costs  pursuant to  Rule 35 in  the amount  of $3,260.25.
   This  amount represents $2,475 for outside attorney fees, $297.25
   for the cost of the transcript of the hearing on the merits, $120
   for  a  corporate employee  to review  the protest,  consult with
   counsel, and  testify at the hearing (six hours at $20 per hour),
   and $368  for a  corporate officer to  file the  protest, consult
   with counsel, and prepare the motion  for costs (4.6 hours at $80
   per hour).
 
        On October 20, 1993, protester and respondent filed a  joint
   Request for Stipulated Judgment which reads as follows:
 
             The  Department  of  Commerce  ("Respondent")  has
        agreed to pay  $3,140.65 to  Integrated Systems  Group,
        Inc. ("Protester") for the Protester's protest costs in
        the above-captioned protest.
 
             Accordingly,  both  the Respondent  and  Protester
        request the Board  to enter a judgment in  favor of the
        Protester for the amount of $3,140.65.
 
        Thus,  respondent  has  agreed  to  an  award  of  costs  of
   $3,140.65,  which is $119.60 less than  originally sought by ISG.
   While respondent  has agreed to  pay this amount, the  full Board
   decision   in  Sterling   Federal   Systems,  Inc.   v.  National
   Aeronautics and Space Administration, GSBCA 10000-C(9835-P), 92-3
   BCA    25,118, 1992  BPD    141,  precludes  any award  of  costs
   incurred for corporate employees to work on a protest.  See also,
   Integrated Systems Group, Inc.  v. Department of the Navy,  GSBCA
   12236-C(12127-P),  93-2 BCA    25,718, 1993  BPD    25.   We have
   independently  examined the documentation filed by ISG in support
   of   its  motion  and  otherwise  find   its  request  for  costs
   reasonable.   Accordingly, we  award $2,475 for  outside attorney
   fees and $297.25 for  the cost of the transcript, for  a total of
   $2,772.25.
 
                                Decision
 
        Protester's motion is GRANTED IN PART.  Protester is awarded
   $2,772.25  to be  paid,  without  interest,  in  accordance  with
   statute,  31 U.S.C.     1304 (1988).    40 U.S.C.    759(f)(5)(C)
   (1988).
 
 
 
                                           ____________________
                                           ALLAN H. GOODMAN
 
                                           Board Judge
 
 
   We concur:
 
 
 
   ___________________________        ___________________________
   MARY ELLEN COSTER WILLIAMS         MARTHA H. DeGRAFF
   Board Judge                        Board Judge