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            DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE:  December 22, 1993
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                             GSBCA 12708-P
 
 
                      LAPTOPS FALLS CHURCH, INC.,
 
                                                Protester,
 
                                   v.
 
                        DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY,
 
                                                Respondent.
 
        Ross  W. Dembling  and Dorn  C.  McGrath, III  of Holland  &
   Knight, Washington, DC, counsel for Protester.
 
        Col. Riggs L. Wilks, Jr.,  Maj. Charles R. Marvin, Jr., Maj.
   Karl M. Ellcessor,  III, and Capt. Gerald P. Kohns, Office of the
   Chief  Trial Attorney,  Department of  the  Army, Arlington,  VA,
   counsel for Respondent.
 
   HYATT, Board Judge.
 
                                 ORDER
 
        Laptops Falls Church,  Inc. filed a protest of  the terms of
   solicitation  number DADA15-94-B-0001 on December 16, 1993.  This
   solicitation  is for the procurement of thirty notebook computers
   by   the  Walter  Reed  Army  Medical  Center.    Initially,  the
   solicitation, issued on  November 17, 1993, called  for 386/25MHz
   notebook computers; in  an amendment issued on  December 3, 1993,
   the Army  modified  one of  several references  to the  386/25MHz
   equipment to  read "486/25MHZ."    The amendment  left all  other
   references to the 386/25MHz equipment intact.  Unable to persuade
   Army  contracting personnel to revise the solicitation to achieve
   consistency,  Laptops contended in its protest that the amendment
   to the solicitation created an inherent ambiguity in violation of
   statute and regulation.
 
        In a joint motion for  dismissal filed on December 22, 1993,
   the parties indicate that they have resolved this issue, and they
   request that the Board dismiss this protest, without prejudice.
 
        Accordingly, this  protest is  DISMISSED WITHOUT  PREJUDICE.
   Rule 28(a).   This dismissal shall convert to  one with prejudice
   on January 15, 1994, pursuant to the agreement of the parties.  
 
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                                      CATHERINE B. HYATT
                                      Board Judge