New America Shipbuilders, Inc. v. United States

OPINION

ROBINSON, Judge.

This case is before the court on the defendant’s motion for summary judgment filed pursuant to Rule 56(b) of the Rules of the U.S. Claims Court (RUSCC). Plaintiff, New American Shipbuilders, Inc., et al. (NASI), is a shipbuilding company which alleges that it has an implied-in-fact contract with the defendant to build three aids-to-navigation boats (ANB). In the alternative, plaintiff avers that the government should be estopped from denying the existence of a contract. In its motion for summary judgment defendant maintains that there is not an implied-in-fact contract…