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                RECONSIDERATION DENIED:  January 6, 1998
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                             GSBCA 13889-R
 
 
                      CWI CONSULTANTS & SERVICES,
 
                                           Appellant,
 
                                   v.
 
                    GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION,
 
                                           Respondent.
 
        Van  Clayton  Lockwood,  President  of  CWI  Consultants   &
   Services, Decatur, GA, appearing for Appellant.
 
        Robert C. Smith, Office of General Counsel, General Services
   Administration, Washington, DC, counsel for Respondent.
 
   Before Board Judges DANIELS (Chairman), PARKER, and NEILL.
 
   PARKER, Board Judge.
 
        On  November 21,  1997,  the  Board  dismissed for  lack  of
   jurisdiction  CWI Consultants &  Services' appeal of  the General
   Services  Administration's  (GSA's)  termination for  default  of
   CWI's contract for janitorial services.  The Board found that CWI
   received the  GSA contracting officer's  decision terminating the
   contract on  June 28,  1996, but  failed to  file  its notice  of
   appeal within  the statutory  ninety-day period.   CWI filed  its
   notice of  appeal on  September 27,  1996, ninety-one  days after
   receiving  the decision.   CWI Consultants &  Services v. General
   Services Administration, GSBCA 13889 (Nov. 21, 1997).
 
        CWI requests  that the Board  reconsider its decision.   CWI
   argues that, because the termination decision was received by CWI
   after 4:30  p.m. on  Friday, June 28,  after the  Board's clerk's
   office had closed for the  weekend, pursuant to Board Rule 102(c)
   the  first day  of  the period  for  filing an  appeal  from that
   decision would have been Monday, July 1.  Thus, according to CWI,
   the company had until Saturday, September 28 to file its appeal.
 
                               Discussion
 
        CWI  misreads  the rule.    Board  Rule  102(c) provides  as
   follows:
 
             Except  as  otherwise  required  by  law,  in
             computing  a  period  of  time prescribed  by
             these rules or by order of the Board, the day
             from  which  the  designated period  of  time
             begins to run  shall not be counted,  but the
             last  day  of  the period  shall  be  counted
             unless  that day is (i) a Saturday, a Sunday,
             or a federal  holiday, or (ii) a day on which
             the  office  of  the Clerk  of  the  Board is
             required to close earlier than 4:30  p.m., or
             does  not  open at  all,  as in  the  case of
             inclement weather, in which event the  period
             shall include  the next  working day.  . .  .
             When the period of time prescribed or allowed
             is 11  days or  more, intervening  Saturdays,
             Sundays,  and   federal  holidays   shall  be
             counted.
 
        Under this  rule, the  time period in  which CWI  could have
   appealed GSA's decision began to run on Saturday, June 29, 1996 -
   - the day following CWI's receipt of the decision.  The fact that
   the  Board's clerk's  office  was closed  when  CWI received  the
   decision is  irrelevant --  the decision was  received by  CWI on
   Friday,  June 28.   The  time period  could begin  on a  Saturday
   because, when  the period  of time prescribed  is eleven  days or
   more (here, it  was ninety days), intervening  Saturdays, Sundays
   and federal holidays  are counted.  If the last day of the period
   had fallen on a Saturday, Sunday, or federal holiday, or on a day
   in which the  Board was closed, Rule 102(c)  would have permitted
   CWI to file its notice of appeal on the next  working day.  Here,
   however, the ninetieth and last day for filing the appeal fell on
   Thursday, September 26.   Because the appeal was  not filed until
   Friday, September 27,  the Board lacked jurisdiction  to consider
   it.  41 U.S.C.   606 (1994).
 
                                Decision
 
        The motion for reconsideration is DENIED.
 
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                                      ROBERT W. PARKER
                                      Board Judge
   We concur:
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   STEPHEN M. DANIELS                 EDWIN B. NEILL
   Board Judge                        Board Judge