Georgia Department of Labor v. Rtt Associates, Inc.

BENHAM, Justice.

This case involves a written contract between a vendor and a state agency that contained form language stipulating that amendments had to be in writing and executed by the agency and the contractor. The vendor asserts that the contract was extended by course of conduct as well as by certain internal writings created by the agency. By the terms of Georgia’s Constitution, the state waives its sovereign immunity for breach of contract when it enters into a written contract. At issue is whether an agency’s waiver of immunity from a breach of contract claim as a result of entering…