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                       GRANTED:  August 22, 1995
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                         GSBCA 13183-C(13009-P)
 
 
                       DATA GENERAL CORPORATION,
 
                                           Applicant,
 
                                   v.
 
                        DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY,
 
                                           Respondent.
 
        Richard J. Webber  and John J. O'Brien of  Arent Fox Kintner
   Plotkin & Kahn, Washington, DC, counsel for Applicant.
 
        Richard  Couch  and  Jeffery   Kessler,  Office  of  Command
   Counsel,  Department of  the Army,  Alexandria,  VA, counsel  for
   Respondent.
 
   Before Board Judges BORWICK, NEILL, and WILLIAMS.
 
   BORWICK, Board Judge.
 
        Applicant,  Data General  Corporation  (Data General)  seeks
   $58,867.87,   as   allowed   by  the   Brooks   Act,   41  U.S.C.
     759(f)(5)(C) (1988), for the  costs of filing and pursuing  its
   protest.    Data  General  prevailed in  Data  General  Corp.  v.
   Department of the  Army, GSBCA 13009-P,  95-1 BCA   27,402,  1994
   BPD   299.  
    
        Data  General incurred legal fees  of $46,855.  Affidavit of
   Richard J. Webber (Webber  Affidavit) at 6 (Feb. 10, 1995).   The
   principal partner on the case spent 143 hours on the protest, for
   which  Data General  was charged  $37,895.   Id.  at 4.   Another
   attorney  spent 30.3  hours, for  which Data General  was charged
   $6,060.  Id. at  5.  A third  attorney spent 20 hours,  for which
   Data  General  was charged  $2,900.    Id.   The  attorneys  also
   incurred expenses  of  $4,233.87  for  long  distance  telephone,
   computerized legal research,  messenger, and transcript expenses.
   Id. at 6.  
 
        The  attorneys  hired   a  consultant  to  assist   them  in
   prosecuting  the protest; the  consultant testified as  an expert
   witness.   Webber  Affidavit at  7.   The consultant  charged the
   attorneys $7,779, which charges have been or will be paid in full
   by Data General.  Id.  
 
 
                               Discussion
 
        Respondent  does not  object to Data  General's application.
   Prevailing parties are entitled to recover their  costs of filing
   and pursuing the protests, including reasonable attorney fees and
   expenses, and in-house employee salaries and expenses.  40 U.S.C.
     759(f)(5)(C)  (1988); Sterling  Federal Systems  v. Goldin,  16
   F.3d 1177 (Fed.  Cir. 1994);  Integrated Systems  Group, Inc.  v.
   Department of the Army, GSBCA 12622-C(12521-P, et al.),  94-2 BCA
     26,819, 1994 BPD   65.  
 
        We have  reviewed the  application and  find reasonable  the
   hourly  rates  and the  hours  spent  by  the attorneys  and  the
   consultant in pursuing the protest.
 
                                Decision
 
         Data General's  application is  GRANTED.   Data General  is
   entitled  to  $58,867.87,  which  Data  General  necessarily  and
   reasonably incurred in filing and pursuing the protest.  This sum
   shall  be paid, without  interest, from the  permanent indefinite
   judgment fund, 31 U.S.C.   1304 (1988).  40 U.S.C.   759(f)(5)(C)
   (1988).
 
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                                 ANTHONY S. BORWICK
                                 Board Judge
 
   We concur:
 
 
 
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   EDWIN B. NEILL                MARY ELLEN COSTER WILLIAMS
   Board Judge                   Board Judge