360 Construction Co. v. Atsalis Brothers Painting Co.

OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART DEFENDANTS’ MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

DAVID M. LAWSON, District Judge.

Painting the Mackinac Bridge is an enormous, labor-intensive task, but it must be done with regularity. The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) outsources that project by means of a *886sealed bid method. The plaintiff in this case, 360 Construction Company, was the successful low bidder on a request for proposal that was returned in June 2010 to clean and paint an eight-tenths-mile span of the Bridge. Defendant Atsalis Brothers had submitted the next lowest bid,…