Board of Contract Appeals
                    General Services Administration
                         Washington, D.C. 20405
 
 
                                                                   
 
                    GRANTED IN PART: August 12, 1999
                                                                   
 
 
                              GSBCA 14301
 
 
                          AIRO SERVICES, INC.,
 
                                                Appellant,
 
                                   v.
 
                    GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION,
 
                                                Respondent.
 
        Michael  H.  Ferring  of Ferring  Nelson  LLP,  Seattle, WA,
   counsel for Appellant.
 
        M.  Leah Wright, Office of General Counsel, General Services
   Administration, Washington, DC, counsel for Respondent.
 
   Before Board Judges DANIELS (Chairman), WILLIAMS, and DeGRAFF.
 
   DANIELS, Board Judge.
 
        The General Services Administration (GSA) terminated for the
   convenience of the  Government a contract held  by Airo Services,
   Inc.  (Airo),  for  the removal  and  replacement  of underground
   storage tanks in the  states of Washington and Idaho.   Airo then
   submitted a  termination  for  convenience  settlement  proposal,
   seeking $80,031.   Later, it  asked GSA's contracting  officer to
   consider this proposal as a claim.  After the contracting officer
   failed to issue a timely decision on the claim,  Airo appealed to
   this Board from his deemed denial of it.
 
        Following the  Board's denial  of GSA's  motion for  summary
   relief (Airo Services,  Inc. v. General Services  Administration,
   GSBCA  14301, 98-2 BCA    29,909) and a hearing  on the merits of
   the case, the parties resumed settlement negotiations.  They have
   now  filed a  Stipulation for  Entry  of Judgment  in which  they
   jointly ask  the Board to  enter judgment "in favor  of appellant
   and against  respondent, in the  amount of Seventy  five thousand
   dollars ($75,000),  inclusive of  all attorneys  fees and  costs.
   Interest pursuant to the Contract Disputes Act of 1978, 41 U.S.C.
      601-613, shall begin to  run on June  30, 1997."  The  parties
   have agreed  not to  seek reconsideration of,  or relief  from, a
   decision  containing  such  a  judgment, and  not  to  appeal the
   decision.
 
 
                                Decision
 
        The  appeal is  GRANTED IN  PART.   GSA  shall  pay to  Airo
   $75,000  plus interest  on that  amount,  at the  rate prescribed
   pursuant to the  Contract Disputes Act,  41 U.S.C.   611  (1994),
   from June 30, 1997, until the  date of payment.  Rule 136(e)  (48
   CFR 6101.36(e) (1998)).
 
                                      _________________________
                                      STEPHEN M. DANIELS
                                      Board Judge
 
   We concur:
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   MARY ELLEN COSTER WILLIAMS         MARTHA H. DeGRAFF
   Board Judge                             Board Judge