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B-212968 1 (1984-04-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlqd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: TM COMPTROLLEN WENENAL DEC1ION ..-OP THE UNITED STATUE WASHINGTON, 0.C. *0540 FILE: B-212968 OATE: April 10, 1984 MATTER OF: Bellinger Shipyard OIQEUT: Payment for work authorized by a govern- ment official without contracting authority may be made on a quantum meruit/quantum valebat basis where the government received a benefit and the price charged was reason- able. Bellinger Shipyardf requests our review of the denial of its claim for 57,043 by the Department of the Navy. The claim is'for repairs to a Naval research barge. In 1982, Bellinger was awarded a contract to per- form certain repairs to the barge'during its two pre- scheduled restricted availability periods, each of which was approximately 1 month long. Three weeks before the barge's second availability period, the barge ran aground in the Bahamas, sustaining an unknown amount of damage to its hull. Several days before the barge docked for the scheduled repairs, the contracting officer's technical representative at Bellinger's facility in Jacksonville, Florida, asked the firm whether it would be possible to perform both the additional and scheduled repairs during the 4 weeks (December 20, 1982, to January 18, 1983) in which the barge would be docked. On the strength of Bellinger's belief that performance of all repairs was possible within the short time limit, the technical repre- sentative thereafter instructed Bellinger to undertake the additional repairs as well as those previously scheduled. While the urgent need for the repairs was discussed with the contracting officer in Bethesda, Maryland, before the barge docked, at no time before or durinq the performance of the additional repairs did Bellinger or the technical representative seek the formal authorization of the con- tracting officer. OTV5 1-:

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