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          MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION DENIED: September 5, 1995
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                            GSBCA 13256-P-R
 
                              LA SYSTEMS,
 
                                           Protester,
 
                                   v.
 
                      DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE,
 
                                           Respondent,
 
                                  and
 
                           CCL, INCORPORATED,
 
                                           Intervenor.
 
        Shelton  H. Skolnick,  Wayne Finegar,  Amy  Hall, and  Bruce
   Trimble of Skolnick  & Leishman, P.C.,  Derwood, MD, counsel  for
   Protester.
 
        Clarence  D.  Long, III,  Capt.  Lee H.  Dayton,  and Robert
   McGrath, Office  of the  General Counsel,  Department of  the Air
   Force,  Washington, DC; and  Capt. Dudley Wireman,  Department of
   the Air Force, Hanscom AFB, MA, counsel for Respondent.
 
        Joseph  J. Petrillo  and  William E.  Conner  of Petrillo  &
   Associates, Washington, DC, counsel for Intervenor.
 
   Before Board Judges DANIELS (Chairman), PARKER, and BORWICK.
 
   BORWICK, Board Judge.
 
        Protester  LA Systems seeks  reconsideration of our decision
   denying its  first protest count  in LA Systems v.  Department of
   the Air Force, GSBCA 13256-P, 1995 BPD   120 (May 30, 1995).   In
   that  case we  granted respondent's  motion  for partial  summary
   relief[foot #] 1    in   the   protest   of   an   award   of   a
   contract  for  processor  replacement  and  support.    Protester
                                                                    
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        [foot #] 1  LA  Systems subsequently withdrew  its remaining
   counts of protest.   LA Systems v.  Department of the Air  Force,
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   GSBCA 13256-P, 1995 BPD   115.
 
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   alleged that the  processor proposed by the awardee  did not meet
   the  requirement  for  "current  manufacture."     We  disagreed,
   concluding that the processor proposed by the awardee  did indeed
   meet  that requirement as  defined in the  solicitation. Id. 1995
   BPD   120 at 6.  
 
 
        In its motion for reconsideration, LA Systems argues that we
   defined  the term  "in production"  in a  different way  than the
   Board has  defined "in current  production" in ViON  Corp., GSBCA
   11002-P, 91-2  BCA   23,809, 1991  BPD   8, and in  Tisoft, Inc.,
   GSBCA 9438-P, 88-3 BCA   20,840, 1988 BPD   103.  
 
        The  crucial term  of  the  solicitation  involved  in  this
   protest   was  "current manufacture."    The solicitation  itself
   defined this term  in various ways, and our  understanding of the
   term  was based  on a construction  of the  document as  a whole.
   ViON and Tisoft  involved solicitations which  used, but did  not
   define, the term  "current production."  The  glossary definition
   in this  solicitation did not  prohibit the particular  method of
   production   used   by  the   awardee's   manufacturer  in   this
   procurement.   LA Systems, 1995 BPD    120, at 6-7.  Our decision
   in LA Systems is consistent  with these opinions:  in determining
   what a phrase means, we look first to the solicitation and second
   (or solely,  where the  solicitation provides  no assistance)  to
   dictionary definitions.
 
                                Decision
 
        LA Systems  has not met  the requirements under Rule  32 for
   reconsideration; the motion is DENIED.
 
 
 
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                                 ANTHONY S. BORWICK
                                 Board Judge
 
   We concur:
 
 
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   STEPHEN M. DANIELS            ROBERT W. PARKER
   Board Judge                   Board Judge