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B-249075 1 (1992-09-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoek0001 and id is 1 raw text is: a nrc) j A- i~ General ' e Ualted States Iec*2048 *ktW 2J~ tar of: U'. . Customs Authority of Service--Claim of the Port New York and New Jersey At W DIGEST B-249075 September 16, 1992 f The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey may be paid on ;a quantum meruit basis for the Customs Service's use of real [42. property without a written lease, since Customs could properly have acquired a lease, it received and accepted the tbenefit of the use of the real property, the Port Authority cted in good faith, and the amounts claimed represent the reasonable value of the rent. - DECISION fthe United States Customs Service requests authorization to dpay the claimant, the Port Authority of New York and New IJersey, for rent payments in the amount of $26,705 per month -for the months of October 1990 through August 31, 1992, for 1Ipace occupied in Building 88 at John F. Kennedy Sfrnternaionai Airport, Jamaica, New York. For the reasons indcated below, we conclude that the Port Authority is W- entitled to recover the amounts claimed on a quantum meruit ;0. basis. BACKGROUND Until 1986, all personnel of the U.S. Customs Service at Kennedy were housed in Building 80. In 1986, the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Port Authority concluded negotiations for new space for Customs. The only available space at the airport was Building 178. However, the building could not house all Customs personnel, so Customs asked GSA to retain space in Building 80 for the Contraband Enforcement Team (CET), the firearms unit, and Warehouse storage. In addition, GSA sought to obtain space for Customs in Building 88 from Hudson General Corporation, which leased that building from the Port Authority for a Centralized Container Examination Facility. When Hudson General Our Claims Group, General Government Division, forwarded its Claim No. Z-2867819 to this Office J I Prv Vt 4 i Ii • • , .I , ,,. .

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