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            DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE:  December 12, 1994
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                              GSBCA 12253
 
 
                   SAE/AMERICON - MID ATLANTIC, INC.,
 
                                                     Appellant,
 
                                   v.
 
                    GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION,
 
                                                     Respondent.
 
        Mark Seiden of Gogick & Seiden,  New York, NY; and Peter  M.
   D'Ambrosio  and Mark  E.  Hanson of  Smith, Pachter,  McWhorter &
   D'Ambrosio, Vienna, VA, counsel for Appellant.
 
        Robert C. Smith,  Martin A. Hom, and M.  Leah Wright, Office
   of General Counsel,  General Services Administration, Washington,
   DC, counsel for Respondent.
 
   HYATT, Board Judge.
 
                                 ORDER
 
        This appeal concerns  a claim for an equitable adjustment in
   the amount of $627,515  and a time extension of 40  days incurred
   in connection with alleged  materially different site  conditions
   encountered during the drilling and installation of caissons into
   bedrock  under a  contract to  construct  the Trenton  Courthouse
   Annex.   Respondent, the General  Services Administration  (GSA),
   has moved  for dismissal  of the  appeal on  the ground  that the
   requisite certification  of the  claim pursuant  to the  Contract
   Disputes Act of  1978, 41 U.S.C.   605(c)(1),(6) (Supp.  V 1993),
   was never submitted to the contracting officer. 
 
        Following  a conference  convened  by  the  Board  with  the
   parties, the following joint stipulation of dismissal was filed:
 
             The  parties   agree  to  the   dismissal  of  the
        captioned appeal without prejudice  under the following
        terms and conditions:
 
             1.  The  substantive  issues   and  resultant
             costs sought through the captioned appeal are
             restated and incorporated  within Appellant's
             Consolidated     Schedule     Impact    Claim
             ("Consolidated Claim").
 
             2.  Appellant   certified   the  Consolidated
             Claim  in   accordance  with   the  Contracts
             Dispute Act of  1978 and submitted it  to the
             Contracting Officer by letter dated April 28,
             1994.
 
             3.  The  Contracting  Officer,   in  a  Final
             Decision  dated  July  7,  1994,  denied  the
             Consolidated  Claim  in its  entirety,  which
             decision  Appellant timely  appealed to  this
             Board  by Notice  of  Appeal  dated July  13,
             1994, the appeal being docketed as GSBCA  No.
             12907.
 
        In accordance with  the request of the  parties, GSBCA 12253
   is hereby DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE.
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                                      CATHERINE B. HYATT
                                      Board Judge