DocketNumber: No. 26-78
Citation Numbers: 219 Ct. Cl. 652
Judges: Davis, Friedman, Smith
Filed Date: 2/23/1979
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 11/23/2022
This contract case comes before the court, without oral argument, on defendant’s motion for summary judgment. That motion asserts that this is a "breach” claim resolvable by this court, but at the same time says that all the necessary facts are found in the decision of the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (in plaintiffs claim "under the contract”) in Appeal of ABC Cleaning Services, Inc., ASBCA No. 21270 (1978), and that plaintiff is now bound by the findings in that Board decision since they were not arbitrary, capricious or unsupported by substantial evidence. From plaintiffs sweeping response to the Government’s motion
IT IS SO ORDERED.
Plaintiff has not itself moved for summary judgment.
Defendant’s motion for summary judgment is largely premised on the legal proposition that the Government in effect terminated the contract for convenience and that plaintiff has already received its full termination costs. However, defendant admits that, even if the Government’s action is treated as a termination, damages are not limited to termination costs if the Government is found to have acted in "bad faith.” Defendant also says that the defendant never breached the contract, but that assertion also disregards plaintiffs charges of deceit, misrepresentation, bad faith and malicious intent and animus.