DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE:  April 5, 1996
                                                                     
                          
 
 
                              GSBCA 13301 
 
 
                           OM PARKASH KALRA,
 
                                                Appellant,
 
                                   v.
 
                    GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION,
 
                                                Respondent.
 
        Om Parkash Kalra, pro se, Danville, CA.
 
        Thomas Hawkins, Office of Regional Counsel, General Services
   Administration, San Francisco, CA, counsel for Respondent.
 
   GOODMAN, Board Judge. 
 
                                 ORDER
 
        This appeal involves  the purchase by appellant of  a car at
   an  auction  conducted  by   respondent,  the  General   Services
   Administration.   Appellant  alleges  that  the  vehicle  was  in
   disrepair at the time he bid on  it and that respondent failed to
   inform  him of   the vehicle s  defects at  the time the  bid was
   placed.  In  his claim of May  11, 1995, appellant  requests that
   respondent either  reimburse him for  the cost of repairs  to the
   vehicle or  allow him  to return the  vehicle to  the Government.
   The contracting officer denied appellant s claim on May 19, 1995,
   and this appeal was filed on June 8, 1995.
 
        The parties elected to have  the Board decide the case based
   upon the written record.   The parties subsequently  entered into
   settlement negotiations and on April 1, 1996, filed a stipulation
   for  dismissal  which  states:  [The  parties]  having  agreed to
   settle  the  dispute  underlying   the  subject  appeal,   hereby
   stipulate  that the appeal should be dismissed without prejudice,
   and stipulate further that such dismisssal shall  be converted to
   a dismissal  with prejudice  60 days after  the fililing  of this
   stipulation.   Accordingly,  pursuant to Rule 28(b),  this appeal
   is DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE.   This dismissal shall convert to
   one with prejudice  sixty days from April 1,  1996, unless either
   party moves  to reinstate the  appeal prior to the  expiration of
   the sixty-day period.
 
                                      _______________________
                                      ALLAN H. GOODMAN
                                      Board Judge