Argeros & Co. v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

Argeros & Company, Inc. (Argeros), a painting contractor, successfully bid on and subsequently entered into a contract with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (DOT) to paint five bridges. While painting bridge No. 4, Argeros determined that the weight of the bridge was approximately *533260 tons, as opposed to the ‘ ‘ approximately 180 tons ’ ’ listed in the bid proposal and in the contract provided by DOT, and attributed this difference to the weight of the steel deck with which the state had replaced the original wooden deck sometime after it had taken over…