Legal Opinion
Maintenance Engineers, Inc. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided October 4, 1990No. 387-89CPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NETTESHEIM, Judge.
This ease is before the court after trial. Plaintiff seeks recovery on a government contract claim for increased costs and expenses associated with its performance of a grounds maintenance contract. Defendant takes the position that the doctrine of patent ambiguity bars plaintiff from recovering for extra work when plaintiff should have alerted the Government, before award, that the contract drawings contained a glaring error in the size of the grounds to be maintained.
FACTS
On March 17, 1986 the Department of the Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command (“NAVFAC”),…
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