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B-193657 1 (1979-06-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjja0001 and id is 1 raw text is: K A AI hi; \v ~ Os<% 71 ~3 COMPTHOLLER GEtRAL OF TtiE UNITED TATES WASItIIKTON. D.C. £0518 .% Otf , n~t sic 7/ / The Ilonorable United Staten at a i. ..t .. L ,.$ u ', or I /IK & M(6t r 8 1979 !lunryti . ,Jauhson ,Sonate Pear Senator jac)sonu Via refer to your letter of l oveber 30, 19711, concerning the oliri of yoir onntituent, Warren, little ond Lund, Inc. (ITh&h) for additional compen- nation for waqe esaat.on conta as a 0ubcontractor on the Grand.Coulee Dan Third Powerplant projoct. As your staff has beer advised, it nwan necessary to request a troportrand pertinent doounentattoni from the agency involved, the latent of which was receivotd on tiny 0, 1979. The roeotd indicates tht. on November 20, 11973, the prino contractor, s or anlflvceor Contracting Engineers (Wtl), entored into acointra. ,wiwth the united Stateq DOpartment of the Intoz4i4, Puroau of Raclapiation (Duroau,), for the coitrutlonof'.the Crar! Coulo POm, Third Powerplank', Palaraph 143.7. of the contract spccifications provided for adjustments for ohangon in the cost of labor, to CQZVAence 1,year after the date oil contract award, with tho Government paytng 75 percent of any Increase in nuch costs. In addiion, subpar; graph 1,3.7a, provided that no. ndjunt- rnont would be made becaune of incroatocl vdagos pa.d by any uubcontractor unlean the contractor furnishes ovidonqe that he agreed, as a part of the subcontract nootiations, to reimburno the subcontractor for the payment of ouch increased wages, The subcontract agreement between Wl3 ,and WL&L did not contain a specific provision permitttng adjust- mrn t ecause of imireaed labor coot nor did it refer to paragraph 1.3,.7 After requenting an adjustment for aiother nubcontraotor in November 1975, r16) was notified thht the fluroau would not make the adjustment because thu )uroau did not find .iny rnferencc to paragraph 1.3.7, or the conditions establishod by that paragraph, in thv subcontrant a qreement. W&10 responded to thluro joction A 7% ram I 'I\ I IL.. 'a I- . I AA I 101448

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