Willems Industries, Inc. v. United States

In this action, plaintiff seeks damages in the amount of $1,800,000 for losses alleged to have been sustained in consequence of breach of contract by defendant and defendant counterclaims for $976,000 damages alleged to have resulted from a breach of contract by the plaintiff.

During September 1950, Jess Larson, Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) created the Emergency Procurement Service (EPS) within GSA and delegated to it authority he had received from the Munitions Board to purchase, store, and dispose of critical and strategic materials for the national stockpile…