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B-181340 1 (1974-07-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadccu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: #A FILE: B-181340 PATE: July 18s 1974 MATTER OF: Mobile Cruehins Company, The, *MV DIGEST; Claim for goods ,ivIdservices furidshed to agency at verbal order of unauthvrized agency official nay be allowed op ¶iantum meruit nnd quantum valebat bases where it in administratively deter- mtned that contractor furnihiled service in good faith ard at reasonable price, . K.r, G eorge Do Breitmeler,' Authorized Certifying Officer, - United States Department of Agriculture, foreat Service, Reg'on 6, Portland, OreSon, by let er (6540), dated Wirch 8, 1974, requested an 'advance decision on a Claim for work performed without proper authorization by,,a subcontractorunder a tinber sale contract. The claim arises under the Ivy Straight Timber Sale Contract, No. 02351-5, awarded to Young and Morgan, loc., on December 23, 9p jr 1970, by the Willamette National Forest, Section% ;A9 and A10 of the contract required the timber purchaser to reconstruct the surface of Forest Road No. 111, This reconstruction work was subcontracted to Nobile Crushing Company, Inc. (Mobile). Mobile, in performing the road reconstruction, rocked a 1-nile section of Forest Service No. 111 vhich was not required by the timber vale contract. This extra work forms the basis of the clait. Mobile contends it was told to perform the extra rocking by.an appro- priate agent of the Forest Service. The Forest Service concedes that the direction was given but advises that it contituted a change in the contract requirements which the agent vas not authorized to make. The record shows that Mobile performed road reconstruction work pursuant to verbal orders of an unauthorized Forest Service official. The Foreot Service's report to this Office ntates in part that: 0 We believe the Government realized some be:efit from the additional work performed by Hobile Crushing Company, Iuc. This particulur ont-mile am* 1 70 ?4Q 3 Cb BEST DOCUMENTAVA\LABLE 9 1 N a -9 fl ; THu COMIPYROLLER GENWAL DECIISIONF 17. H1 UNITEO STATUO WASHINGTON, 0,0, ,20546 (7,. K ( (I ~( .; ¾. A,

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