Kenai Lumber Co., Inc. v. LeResche

OPINION

MATTHEWS, Justice.

In this case we are asked to review the legality of a negotiated amendment to a long term timber sale contract between the State of Alaska and South-Central Timber Development, Inc. The amendment has been challenged by Kenai Lumber Company, Inc., which operates a currently underutilized sawmill in Seward, and competes with South-Central in the purchase of timber. The basis for Kenai’s claim is that the changes which the amendment makes are so significant that they amount to a circumvention of the competitive bidding process under which the original contract was let.…