DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE:  April 18, 1994
                                                             
 
        
                             GSBCA 12795-P
 
 
                    SUN MICROSYSTEMS FEDERAL, INC.,
 
                                                Protester,
 
                                   v.
 
                        DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY,
 
                                                Respondent,
 
                                  and
 
                     DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION,
 
                                  and
 
                          HUGHES DATA SYSTEMS,
 
                                  and
 
                        HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY,
 
                                                Intervenors.
 
        Thomas P. Humphrey,  James J. Regan, John  E. McCarthy, Jr.,
   and  Devon S.  Engel of  Crowell  & Moring,  Washington, DC;  and
   Garrett L.  Thomas of  Sun Microsystems  Federal, Inc.,  Mountain
   View, CA, counsel for Protester.
 
        Ellen  D. Washington, David P. Andross, Thomas L. Frankfurt,
   Elizabeth  Hancock, Penny  Rabinkoff,  Victoria Heiden  Kauffman,
   James Y.   Miyazawa,   and  Robert   G.   Sosnowski,  Information
   Technology  Acquisition   Center,   Department   of   the   Navy,
   Washington, DC, counsel for Respondent.
 
        Kenneth B.  Weckstein  and  Raymond  Fioravanti  of  Epstein
   Becker & Green, P.C., Washington, DC; and Jeffrey H. Schneider of
   Digital  Equipment   Corporation,  Landover,   MD,  counsel   for
   Intervenor Digital Equipment Corporation.
 
        Marcia G. Madsen, Andrew D.  Ness, Brian W. Craver, Gwyn Ann
   Taylor, and David F. Dowd of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Washington,
   DC; and  Barbara  A.  Pollack  of Hughes  Aircraft  Company,  Los
   Angeles, CA, counsel for Intervenor Hughes Data Systems.
 
        Rand L. Allen, Philip J. Davis, and David A. Vogel of Wiley,
   Rein  & Fielding,  Washington, DC;  and  Robert Chwaliszewski  of
   Hewlett-Packard  Company,  Andover,  MA,  counsel for  Intervenor
   Hewlett-Packard Company.
 
   GOODMAN, Board Judge.
 
                                 ORDER
 
        This  protest   was  filed  on   March  25,  1994,   by  Sun
   Microsystems Federal, Inc.  (Sun).  Sun's protest  challenges the
   terms of a solicitation  issued by the Department of  the Navy on
   the   basis  that  provisions  of  the  solicitation  are  unduly
   restrictive of competition, the solicitation contains other terms
   which are contrary  to law and  regulation, and the  solicitation
   failed to permit full and  open competition.  Three offerors have
   intervened in this protest as intervenors of right.  
 
        On March 31,  1994, a prehearing conference  was convened by
   the Board,  during  which time  discovery  was authorized  and  a
   hearing on the merits was scheduled for April 29-May 5, 1994.  On
   April  18, protester  and  respondent filed  a  Joint Motion  for
   Voluntary Dismissal.  The intervenors  have posed no objection to
   the   motion.    Accordingly,  this  protest  is  DISMISSED  WITH
   PREJUDICE.   Rule 28(a).   The Board's  order of April  13, 1994,
   suspending  respondent's  delegation   of  procurement  authority
   hereby lapses.
 
 
 
                                 ________________________
                                 ALLAN H. GOODMAN
                                 Board Judge