Board of Contract Appeals
                    General Services Administration
                         Washington, D.C. 20405
 
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           GSBCA 14863, 14866 GRANTED; 14865 GRANTED IN PART;
             GSBCA 14868, 14869, 14870 DENIED:  May 7, 1999
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             GSBCA 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14870
 
 
                      TRATAROS CONSTRUCTION, INC.,
 
                                           Appellant,
 
                                   v.
 
                    GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION,
 
                                           Respondent.
 
        Robert J.  Sciaroni of Bell,  Boyd & Lloyd,  Washington, DC,
   counsel for Appellant.
 
        Jeremy  Becker-Welts,  Office  of General  Counsel,  General
   Services Administration, Washington, DC, counsel for Respondent.
 
   DeGRAFF, Board Judge.
 
        On September 26, 1996, Trataros Construction and the General
   Services Administration entered into contract GS-02P-DTC-0033(N).
   The  contract  required  Trataros   to  perform  renovations  and
   alterations  at  the  United States  Post  Office  and Courthouse
   Building  in  Old  San  Juan,  Puerto Rico.    In  the  course of
   performance, Trataros  submitted several  claims to  GSA and  the
   parties were not  able to  reach an  agreement upon  some of  the
   claims.    Six  of  those  claims gave  rise  to  these  appeals.
   Trataros elected  to use the Board's small  claims procedure, and
   hearings  were  held  on  April  28,  29,  and  30,  1999.    The
   undersigned judge  issued oral  decisions in  these cases,  which
   were resolved as follows.
 
        The Board GRANTED  GSBCA 14863 in the amount  of $29,695.94,
   because GSA utilized  a proprietary specification and  rejected a
   substitute  product  proposed  by  Trataros  that  was  the  same
   standard of  quality  and was  the functional  equivalent of  the
   product described in the specifications.
 
        The  Board GRANTED  IN PART  GSBCA  14865 in  the amount  of
   $13,862.97, because GSA changed the work required by the terms of
   the contract.  The Board denied  part of this appeal, because GSA
   did not  direct Trataros to  perform the work for  which Trataros
   claimed compensation.
 
        The Board  GRANTED  GSBCA 14866  in the  amount of  $20,602,
   because  GSA  changed the  work  required  by  the terms  of  the
   contract.
 
        The  Board  DENIED  GSBCA 14868,  because  Trataros  did not
   establish that  GSA changed the work required by the terms of the
   contract.
 
        The  Board  DENIED  GSBCA 14869,  because  Trataros  did not
   establish that GSA changed the work required by the terms  of the
   contract.
 
        The  Board  DENIED  GSBCA 14870,  because  Trataros  did not
   establish either that  it provided  GSA with  a repair  procedure
   that  would have  corrected  problems with  a concrete  wall that
   Trataros  constructed, or that GSA directed Trataros to tear down
   the wall.
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                                      MARTHA H. DeGRAFF
                                      Board Judge