Tenaska Washington Partners, L.P. v. United States

OPINION

MILLER, Judge.

This case is before the court after argument on defendant’s motion to dismiss or stay and to compel arbitration and plaintiffs cross-motion to enforce the parties’ arbitration agreement if they are required to arbitrate their dispute. A partnership seeks to hold the Bonneville Power Administration, an agency within the Department of Energy, liable for breach of a written contract to develop electrical power, including construction of a power plant. The Government terminated the contract after construction began, but before the power plant was built. At issue is whether,…