Collins International Service Company v. The United States

EDWARD S. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

In this Government contract case, appellant Collins International Sendee Company (CISCO) appeals from a judgment of the United States Claims Court, denying CISCO’S claim for additional compensation resulting from the Government’s failure to perform its disputed legal duty to clarify an ambiguity in its contract with CISCO. We affirm.

Issues

We address first the issue whether the Claims Court erred as a matter of law in holding that the United States Government (in this case, the Navy) owed contractor CISCO no legal duty to respond to CISCO’S requests for…