Board of Contract Appeals
                    General Services Administration
                         Washington, D.C. 20405
 
 
 
                                                  
 
                            October 27, 1999
                                                  
 
 
                            GSBCA 15100-RATE
 
 
              In the Matter of TRI-STATE MOTOR TRANSIT CO.
 
 
        Beverly  Reding, Manager  of  Revenue Accounting,  Tri-State
   Motor Transit Co., Joplin, MO, appearing for Claimant.
 
        James  F.  Fitzgerald,  Director,  Audit  Division,  Federal
   Supply  Service, Washington, DC,  appearing for  General Services
   Administration.
 
        Colonel James F. Quinn,  Staff Judge Advocate, Headquarters,
   Military  Traffic  Management Command,  Department  of the  Army,
   Falls Church, VA, appearing for Department of Defense.
 
   DANIELS, Board Judge (Chairman).
 
        Tri-State  Motor Transit Co. asked  us to review the denial,
   by  the Audit Division  of the General  Services Administration's
   Federal Supply  Service, of  the carrier's  claim for  additional
   payment for transporting a shipment of rockets for the Department
   of the Army in March 1996.   The Audit Division had rejected  the
   claim as untimely filed.
 
        In response to  the filing of this case,  the Audit Division
   reexamined the matter.  It agreed with the carrier as to both the
   timeliness and the merit of the  claim.  It consequently issued a
   settlement certificate granting  full payment.  The  carrier then
   acquiesced to a dismissal of the case.
 
        Accordingly, the case is dismissed.
 
                                      __________________________
                                      STEPHEN M. DANIELS
                                      Board Judge