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Sfl hIE!ON 4, D,! : rHE UNITEED [STATES
SWAlklISNTON, D.C. 20540
FILE: U-208049 DATE: Autgust 19, 1982
MATTER OF: Federal Communications Commission--Request
for Advance Decision
DIGEST:
1. A claim by a real estatebroker for damages
arising from tho Federal Communications
Commission's failure to enter into a lease
for office space located by the broker may
be settled by the contracting officer under
the Contract Disputes Act.
2. Payment of proposed contract Eettlement
must wait until the certifying officer has
received a settlctment agreement signed by
both parties to the contract which sets
forth a finding of legal liability by the
Government and a statement of the amount
owed.
Mr. Wayne B. Leuhe, Chief Certifying Office of
the Federal communications Commission (FCC), pursuant
to 31 U.S.C. § 82d (19,6), requests an advance decislor
regarding the propriety of the proposed settlement of
a claim for $1,543,006, filed by Julien C. Studley,
Inc., under the Contract Disputen Act of 1978, 41 U.S.C.
§§ 601-603 (Supp. III, 1979). SpecifIcally, N&r. Leshe
asks whether the FCC contracting officer is authorized
to settle the claim under the Contract Disputeu Act.
We find that the FCC contracting officer is authorized
p to settle thin claim.
The relevant facts and circumstances of record
+ follow. Beginning in the lates1970's, the FCC iscuyht
a location for ito headquar-terG offices to consolidate
scattered rental office srace at various locations in
the Washington meiropolitan .arca. In order to facilitate
lot this effort, FCC officials obtained the assistance of
,i Stud]ey, a commercial real estate broker.
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