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                      DISMISSED:  January 10, 1994
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                             GSBCA 12695-P
 
 
                  GTE GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS CORPORATION,
 
                                                Protester,
 
                                  and
 
                     SPRINT COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY,
 
                                                Intervenor,
 
                                   v.
 
 
                  DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY,
 
                                                Respondent,
 
                                  and
 
                       GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS, INC.,
 
                                                Intervenor.
 
        George   W.  Stiffler,   Charles M.   Reifel,  and   Nick R.
   Hoogstraten of Bastianelli,  Brown & Touhey, Washington,  DC; and
   Sidney G.  Masri, Assistant  General Counsel  for GTE  Government
   Systems Corporation, counsel for Protester.
 
        Carl  J. Peckinpaugh, Scott M. Heimberg, Janet Z. Barsy, and
   Sheila C. Stark of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Washington,
   DC; and Julie  Lunceford Witcher, George J. Affe,  and Anthony L.
   Cogswell, Sprint Communications Company, Herndon, VA, counsel for
   Intervenor Sprint Communications Company.
 
        Douglas G. White and H.  Jack Shearer, Office of the General
   Counsel,  Defense  Information Systems  Agency,  Scott Air  Force
   Base,  IL; and  John  R.  McCaw, Gregory  C.  Carter, and  Robert
   Zuckerman,  Office  of  the   Chief  Counsel,  Federal   Aviation
   Administration, Washington, DC, counsel for Respondent.  
 
        Jeffrey  H. Smith,  J.  Robert Humphries,  Sharon L. Taylor,
   Ronald A.  Schechter, and  Susan B. Cassidy  of Arnold  & Porter,
   Washington,  DC; Ernest  U.  Gambaro,  General  Counsel,  Infonet
   Services Corporation,  El  Segundo, CA,  counsel  for  Intervenor
   Government Systems, Inc.
 
   NEILL, Board Judge.
 
         
                                 ORDER
 
        This  protest, filed by  GTE Government  Systems Corporation
   (GTE),  challenges  the  award  of  a  contract  by  the  Defense
   Information  Systems Agency  (DISA)  to Government  Systems, Inc.
   (GSI).  The contract was awarded by DISA on behalf of the Federal
   Aviation Administration (FAA).  It calls for the furnishing of an
   agency data telecommunications network for FAA.  
 
        GSI  and Sprint Communications  Co., another  participant in
   this  procurement,  have  both  intervened  in  this  protest  as
   intervenors of right.  
 
        On this date, GTE filed a motion  to dismiss this protest in
   accordance with Rule 28(a).   Because the motion does not request
   a  dismissal  "without  prejudice,"   this  dismissal  is   "with
   prejudice" in  accordance with  the Board's new  Rule 28(a).   58
   Fed. Reg. 69,263  (1993) (to be codified at 48 CFR 6101.28).  The
   motion is granted.  
 
        This protest is DISMISSED.  
 
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                                                EDWIN B. NEILL
                                                Board Judge