DocketNumber: No. 44-79
Citation Numbers: 229 Ct. Cl. 493
Filed Date: 10/20/1981
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 11/23/2022
Contracts; Wunderlich Act review; default termination; cure notice; sustantial performance; bad faith and prejudice; constructive changes. — Plaintiff seeks review under Wun-derlich Act standards, 42 U.S.C. §§ 321-22 (1976), of a decision of the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (the board) upholding the default termination of a contract plaintiff had with the Navy to deliver one automatic, vertical, single spindle honing machine to the Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida. The contract specifications required that the machine, before acceptance and delivery, pass certain performance tests, one of which was a metal removal rate test. During final acceptance inspection and tests, plaintiffs machine was unable to pass the metal removal rate test. The contract was subsequently terminated for default due to plaintiffs failure to make delivery of the machine within the time specified in the contract as amended. On September 5, 1980 Trial Judge Thomas J. Lydon filed a recommended opinion (reported in full at 27 CCF para. 80,663), affirming the decision of the board. The trial judge found, inter alia, (1) that plaintiff was not entitled to a 10-day cure notice under the failure to perform