GRANTED IN PART: May 15, 1997
                                               


                           GSBCA 14094


              EASTERN MAINTENANCE & SERVICES, INC.,

                                             Appellant,

                                v.

                 GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION,

                                             Respondent.

     Benjamin N. Thompson of Thompson & Godwin, L.L.P., Dunn, NC,
counsel for Appellant.

     A. R. Dattolo, Office of Regional Counsel, General Services
Administration, Atlanta, GA, counsel for Respondent.

Before Board Judges DANIELS (Chairman), BORWICK, and WILLIAMS.

DANIELS, Board Judge.

     Eastern Maintenance & Services, Inc. (Eastern), submitted a
claim to the General Services Administration (GSA) for an equitable
adjustment in the amount of $18,817.11 under an indefinite quantity
contract for partitioning and miscellaneous repairs in buildings in
the Knoxville, Tennessee area.

     GSA told prospective bidders on this contract that it
anticipated that eighty percent of the work under the contract
would be permitted to be performed during regular working hours,
and twenty percent of the work would be directed to be performed
outside such hours.  According to Eastern, only ten percent of the
work the agency ordered under the contract was allowed to be done
during regular working hours; ninety percent had to be performed
outside regular working hours.  The contractor maintained that GSA
either failed to exercise good faith in establishing the estimates
contained in the invitation for bids or acted improperly in
ordering the work after the contract was awarded.  The Government's
actions, Eastern asserted, constituted a cardinal change in the
terms of the contract and caused the contractor to suffer a loss in
the claimed amount.

     The contracting officer did not respond to the claim, and
Eastern appealed his deemed denial of it.

     The parties have now agreed that GSA will pay Eastern $11,000
as full and complete settlement of the claim.  They have jointly
asked us to enter a stipulated judgment that the agency pay the
contractor this amount.  They have also submitted certificates of
finality in which they agree not to appeal or move for
reconsideration of a decision which orders this result.

                             Decision

     GSA shall pay to Eastern, as full and complete settlement of
this claim, $11,000.  Rule 136(e).






                                   ________________________
                                   STEPHEN M. DANIELS
                                   Board Judge

We concur:





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ANTHONY S. BORWICK                 MARY ELLEN COSTER WILLIAMS
Board Judge                        Board Judge