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B-198344 1 (1980-07-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadijy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION0 TECOMPTROLLER GENERAL EC1SION NX OF THE UNITEO STATES WS H IN TO N, 0. C. 205489 FILE: B-198344 DATE: J'ly 9, 1980 MATTER OF: Cyber-Synectics Group, Inc DIGEST: Corporation which supplied computer services to President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island may not recover on claim where Com- mission members had no authority to contract and quantum meruit recovery is impermissible because Government received no benefit from services. The General Services Administration (GSA) has requested our decision on whether Cyber-Syn ctics Group, Inc. (CSG), is entitled to payment of $64,909.56 for services rendered to the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island. In June or early July 1979, the members of the Media Task Force of the Commission met with CSG to discuss its requirements for computer services. Sometime after that meeting, CSG gave the Task Force an invoice for $6,600. The members of the Task Force apparently understood this to be the bill for the en- tire job. CSG states, however, that the invoice was a pre-billing for one man-month's worth of work and did not represent an estimate for the entire job. In any case, the members of the Commission did not have the authority from the Government to enter into a con- tract and no written contract was ever signed. Throughout the course of dealings between CSG and the Media Task Force a number of difficulties were encountered. The ultimate outcome of the dealings is that CSG now claims it is owed $64,909.56 for computer time, labor costs, and other miscellaneous expenses for services performed for the benefit of the Task Force.

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