Janicki Logging Co. v. United States

OPINION

ANDEWELT, Judge.

I

In this government contract action, plaintiff, Janicki Logging Co., Inc., seeks to recover damages it incurred under a contract it entered into with the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service (the Forest Service) for the removal of timber within the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest in Washington State. The dispute involves the contracting officer’s unilateral decision, after the parties had entered into the contract, to delete from the scope of the contract an area denoted in the contract as Unit 1. The reason for this deletion was that a northern…