DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE:  April 26, 1993
                                                              
 
 
                             GSBCA 12387-P
 
                   SPREAD INFORMATION SCIENCES, INC.,
 
                                                Protester, 
 
                                   v.
 
                        DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, 
 
                                                Respondent.
 
 
        Stella Wang, Contracting  Coordinator for Spread Information
   Sciences, Inc., Bayside, NY, appearing for Protester.
 
        Craig R.  Schmauder and  William Richards,  Office of  Chief
   Counsel, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Department of the
   Army, Washington, DC, counsel for Respondent.
 
   NEILL, Board Judge. 
 
 
                                 ORDER
 
        This protest was filed with the Board on  April 19, 1993, by
   Spread  Information Sciences, Inc. (Spread).  Spread protests the
   award  of  a  contract  for  certain  automatic  data  processing
   equipment by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.  
     
        On Friday, April  23, counsel for respondent  filed with the
   Board copies of a signed stipulation.  According to  the terms of
   this stipulation,  respondent and  protester have  agreed to  the
   dismissal of this  case in order to permit  respondent to address
   it as an agency level protest under applicable agency procedures.
   The  parties  have  further  agreed  that   the  protest  may  be
   reinstated at  the Board within  ten working  days following  any
   adverse  decision on  the agency  protest,  and that,  if not  so
   reinstated,  this dismissal  will convert  to  a dismissal  "with
   prejudice."
 
        Accordingly,  pursuant to the  agreement of the  parties and
   Rule 28(a),  this case  is  DISMISSED  WITHOUT  PREJUDICE.    The
   dismissal will be deemed to be "with prejudice" if no party moves
   for  a  reinstatement  of the  protest  within  ten working  days
   following any adverse decision on the agency protest.  
 
                                           ____________________
                                           EDWIN B. NEILL
                                           Board Judge