James A. Mann, Inc. v. United States

This is an appeal by the plaintiff, James A. Mann, Inc., (contractor or plaintiff), from an adverse decision of the General Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals (Board), which decision required the contractor to furnish and install a 200KW natural gas driven engine-generator, which cost $32,867.63, in the Federal Building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, under a contract with the Government for “Modernization, Painting, and Emergency Power” of such building. The contractor contended before the Board, and contends here, that the contract terms required the engine-generator to be…