Edmund J. Rappoli Co. v. United States

Plaintiff was a bidder for the construction of an armory for the Government at West Point. It had sent in its formal sealed bid before the day-the bids were to be opened, intending to take advantage of the privilege offered in the invitation to bid of sending telegraphic modifications in time to be received before the hour set for opening the bids, which was 11 a. m. on March 16,1937.

*513In addition to the bid on the principal project, on which plaintiff’s first figure was $620,000, plaintiff made a first bid of $14,000 on an alternate, given in the invitation, for concrete caissons instead of…