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              MOTION FOR COSTS GRANTED:  December 23, 1992
 
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                         GSBCA 10000-C(9835-P)
 
                    STERLING FEDERAL SYSTEMS, INC.,
 
 
                                                     Protester,
 
                                   v.
 
             NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION,
 
                                                     Respondent.
 
        Alan I. Saltman of Saltman  & Stevens, P.C., Washington, DC,
   counsel for Protester.
 
        David  Forbes,  Office  of  the  Associate  General  Counsel
   (Contracts),  Washington,  DC,  and  Rosamond  M.  French,   Ames
   Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, counsel for Respondent.
 
   Before Board Judges HENDLEY, PARKER, and WILLIAMS. 
 
   HENDLEY, Board Judge.
 
        For the reasons outlined in our decision of May 22, 1992, we
   award to Sterling Federal Systems, Inc. the amount of $517,436.30
   (which  includes $457,016.17 in attorney's fees and disbursements
   and  $4,046  in witness'  fees,  which  was  the subject  of  our
   decision of May  22, 1992, and $56,374.13 in  attorney's fees and
   disbursements for pursuit of the cost case itself).  
 
        On August 7,  1992, we issued a  Show Cause Order as  to why
   the Board should not award Sterling  $514,752.67.  The additional
   $2,683.63 set forth  herein represents the amounts  identified in
   Sterling's  Third Amendment  to it  Motion,  dated September  16,
   1992,  for expenses incurred in  pursuit of this  cost case up to
   that date.
 
        The respondent did not respond  to our Show Cause Order, but
   instead informed us on December 22, 1992, that its reason for not
   responding  was that  the matter  is on  appeal  to the  Court of
   Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  That  is not, however, so.  Our
   decision  of May 22, 1992, which  the protester, Sterling Federal
   has  appealed, denied  the protester's  claim  of entitlement  to
   additional  amounts not involved or  included in the costs herein
   granted.   Not  one  cent of  the  costs herein  awarded  are the
   subject of an appeal.  The  appeal involves costs we declined  to
   award to the protester.    
 
        The award,  $517,436.30, is  to be  paid, without  interest,
   from the  permanent indefinite  judgment fund,  31 U.S.C.    1304
   (1988).  40 U.S.C.   759(f)(5)(C)(1988).
 
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                                 JAMES W. HENDLEY
                                 Board Judge
 
 
   We concur:
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   ROBERT W. PARKER
   Board Judge
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   MARY ELLEN COSTER WILLIAMS
   Board Judge