Platt Electric Supply, Inc. v. JC Northwest, Inc.

Respondents Platt Electric Supply, Inc. (Platt), and Adolph’s Electric (Adolph’s) petition for reconsideration of our decision in Platt Electric Supply, Inc. v. JC Northwest, Inc., 157 Or App 79, 967 P2d 924 (1998), arguing that our opinion is based on an incorrect understanding of the sequence of relevant events. We allow the petitions, withdraw our former opinion and dispose of the parties’ contentions as follows.

In Platt, we held that, because the Polk County Housing Authority (PCHA) had declared an emergency before awarding a contract on a public housing project, it was excused from bond…