Board of Contract Appeals
                 General Services Administration
                      Washington, D.C. 20405


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                    DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE: 
                        September 30, 2005
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                          GSBCA 16020-ST


           THOMSON & PRATT INSURANCE ASSOCIATES, INC.,
                                 
                                         Appellant,

                                v.

                       DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

                                         Respondent.

    Joseph R. Cruse, Jr., Long Beach, CA; and Kevin M. Murphy and Valerie G. Preiss
of Carr Maloney P.C., Washington, DC, counsel for Appellant.

    Luisa M. Alvarez, Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State, Rosslyn, VA,
counsel for Respondent.

NEILL, Board Judge.

                              ORDER

    Counsel for appellant has recently advised the Board that a settlement has been reached
with the Government regarding this and related disputes.  The disputes arose in connection
with a contract for insurance coverage for works of art on loan to the Department of State
and exhibited at posts worldwide as part of the Department's Art in Embassies Program.

    The first of these disputes concerned a claim by appellant for payment of an insurance
premium said to be due under the insurance contract (GSBCA 15963-ST).  The second
dispute involved  a challenge to the Government's subsequent termination of appellant's
contract for default (GSBCA 15979-ST).  A third dispute, which is the subject of this appeal,
concerns a claim by the Government for the excess cost of reprocurement following the
termination of appellant's contract, a claim for refund of premiums actually paid, and a small 
number of claims filed by the Government for damage sustained by a limited number of art
works allegedly covered under the contract for insurance.      

    In view of the settlement reached, counsel for appellant has requested that the Board
dismiss this appeal as well as the other two aforementioned related appeals.  While we are
prepared to dismiss this case, we cannot comply with counsel's request regarding the two
related appeals.  

    With regard to GSBCA 15963-ST, we cannot dismiss that case for the simple reason
that we have already dismissed it by order dated November 25, 2002.  Pursuant to Board
Rule 128(b) (48 CFR 6101.28(b) (2002)), that dismissal is now deemed to be with prejudice. 
As to GSBCA 15979-ST, that case is no longer before us.  On April 8, 2005, the Board
rendered a decision upholding the contracting officer's termination for default of appellant's
contract.  Thomson & Pratt Insurance Associates, Inc. v. Department of State, GSBCA
15979-ST, 05-1 BCA   32,944.  That decision has since been appealed and is currently
pending before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  Thompson & Pratt Insurance
Associates, Inc. v. Department of State, No. 05-1502 (Fed. Cir. filed Aug. 5, 2005).  Any
request for dismissal of that case, therefore, must be addressed to the Court of Appeals and
not to this Board.

    As for the instant case, counsel for the Government has advised the Board that she has
no objection to it being dismissed with prejudice.  Accordingly, in the absence of any
objection, the request of counsel for appellant that this case, GSBCA 16020-ST, be
dismissed is granted.  Pursuant to Rule 128(a), this appeal is DISMISSED WITH
PREJUDICE.                       
             
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                                 EDWIN B. NEILL
                                 Board Judge