Board of Contract Appeals
                    General Services Administration
                         Washington, D.C. 20405
 
 
                                                                     
    
 
                        DISMISSED:  May 7, 1998
                                                                     
    
 
 
                              GSBCA 14419 
 
 
                        TGMI/CONTRACTORS, INC.,
 
                                                Appellant,
 
                                   v.
 
                    GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION,
 
                                                Respondent.
 
        Joseph  C.  Kovars   of  Ober,  Kaler,  Grimes   &  Shriver,
   Baltimore, MD, counsel for Appellant.
 
        Robert  J.  McCall,  Office  of  Regional  Counsel,  General
   Services   Administration,   Philadelphia,    PA,   counsel   for
   Respondent.
 
   GOODMAN, Board Judge. 
 
                                 ORDER
 
        On  December  8,  1997,  appellant, TGMI/Contractors,  Inc.,
   filed  an appeal  with  this Board  from a  contracting officer's
   decision dated September  9, 1997, denying a claim  in the amount
   of $40,706.   The  claim was  for additional electronic  security
   devices and related work under a contract awarded to appellant by
   respondent,  the  General  Services  Administration  (GSA).    On
   January 30,  1998, the  parties advised the  Board that  they had
   agreed  to settle  the appeal.   The Board,  therefore, suspended
   proceedings pending finalization of the settlement agreement  and
   execution of a contract modification.
 
        Counsel for respondent moved to dismiss the appeal on May 5,
   1998,  and  attached  to  the  motion  the  settlement  agreement
   executed by  appellant and respondent  on February 13,  1998, and
   the  contract  modification,  effective  March  20,  1998.    The
   settlement agreement reads, in pertinent part:
 
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        GSA and TGMI do hereby agree as follows:
 
        1.  THAT, the  parties shall execute a  modification to
        said  contract  incorporating the  disputed  additional
        work  which TGMI shall  perform and providing  that GSA
        shall pay  TGMI the  lump  sum of  $33,132.47 for  such
        work; and
 
        2.  THAT, the parties agree to dismiss, with prejudice,
        GSBCA  No.  14419,  now   pending  before  the  General
        Services  Board of  Contract Appeals upon  execution of
        such modification.  TGMI agrees to renounce and abandon
        its claim  dated June 7,  1997.  GSA agrees  to rescind
        and withdraw  its Contracting Officer's  Final Decision
        dated September 9, 1997; and
 
        3.  THAT,  each party forever discharges,  remises, and
        releases  the other from  any and all  claims, demands,
        and  causes of action,  legal and equitable,  known and
        unknown,  of any  kind  and  nature  whatsoever,  which
        either may  have against  the other  arising out of  or
        related  to  the  dispute,  including  the  payment  of
        interest, attorneys' fees, or other costs.
 
        Accordingly,  pursuant  to  Rule 128(a)  and  the  motion of
   respondent, to which appellant poses no objection, this appeal is
   DISMISSED.
 
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                                      ALLAN H. GOODMAN
                                      Board Judge