J & S SERVICES, INC. v. Tomter

OPINION

BRYNER, Chief Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

In this case we must determine whether the Alaska State Procurement Code’s exclusive remedy provision bars a disappointed contractor from suing the state and a state procurement officer in contract and tort for money damages resulting from allegedly intentional misconduct in awarding a contract under a state-issued request for proposals. Here, because the exclusive remedy provision unequivocally bars J & S Services’s civil action against the Department of Natural Resources, we affirm the superior court’s dismissal as to the department. But by its…