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B-195173 1 (1979-07-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhkg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I .4. I, p THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . * OF THE UNITEO STATES o* 'WASHINGTON, D. C. 20548 FILE: B-195173 DATE: July 16, 1979 MATTER OF: Fe eral Aviation Administration - A60&6 Request for Advance Decision 7 DIGEST: Even though costs incurred under contracts awarded pursuant to grant projects were based on cost-plus- percentage-of-cost contracting, contractor can be paid on quantum meruit/quantum valebat basis as agency has determined costs to be reasonable and Government received benefit of services. The Rocky Mountain Region, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Department of Transportation (DOT), has requested our Office's opinion as to whether certain costs incurred under contracts awarded pursuant to two grant projects of the Airport Development Aid Program (ADAP) are payable. The projects involved are ADAP Project No. 6-30-0046-04, Kalispell, Montana, and ADAP Project No. 6-30-0012-05, Butte, Montana. Recent audits by the Office of the Inspector General, DOT, have disclosed that portions of the engineering con- tracts for the projects were based on a cost-plus- percentage-of-cost (CPPC) method of contracting. A Aiatio rvRegulat-ions part 1 sta±.es that the CPPC method of contracting will not be used in connection with ADAP projects. 'T-K urner NU. /240i.3, cnapter 1,-paragraph-9-d, requires that the Comptroller General be consulted as to the propriety of payments under illegal contracts. The FAA i $-4 hat-- ai- thetime the contr cts were approved, the contracts contained a not-4o-

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