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               DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE:  May 10, 1995
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                             GSBCA 13265-P 
 
 
                   SPREAD INFORMATION SCIENCES, INC.,
 
                                                Protester,
 
                                   v.
 
                        DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY,
 
                                                Respondent.
 
        Jeff Wang of Spread Information Sciences, Inc., Bayside, NY,
   appearing for Protester.
 
        L.  James Gardner, Office  of Counsel, Fleet  and Industrial
   Supply Center, Department of the Navy, Jacksonville, FL; and Eric
   A. Lile, Office of General Counsel, Naval Supply Systems Command,
   Department of the Navy, Arlington, VA, counsel for Respondent.
 
   NEILL, Board Judge.
 
                                 ORDER
 
        This protest  was filed with  the Board  on May 5,  1995, by
   Spread Information Sciences, Inc.  On May 9, the Board convened a
   prehearing  conference.   At that  time  representatives of  both
   parties indicated a willingness to attempt to resolve the protest
   at the agency level.  It was agreed, therefore, that this protest
   would be dismissed  without prejudice to its reinstatement in the
   event the matter is not resolved at that level.  
 
        Accordingly,  pursuant  to  Rule  28(b),  this   protest  is
   DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE.  The dismissal shall become one with
   prejudice if protester elects not to reinstate the protest within
   ten   working  days  after  formal  notification,  or  actual  or
   constructive  knowledge, of initial  adverse agency action.   See
   Rule 5(b)(3)(iii).  
 
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                                           EDWIN B. NEILL
                                           Board Judge