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B-237825 1 (1990-04-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnsx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Wahingon, D.C. 20548 IN 9 Decision Matter of: Department of the Navy -- Texas Instruments Claim for Services File: B-237825 Date: April 27, 1990 DIGEST Claimant may be paid on a auant meruit basis for services provided to the government without a written contract since the government could properly have acquired the services, the government received and accepted the benefit of the services, and the claimant acted in good faith. Payment should be made in the amount the agency determines to be the reasonable value of the benefit to the government. DECISION The Department of the Navy asks whether it may pay three claims totaling $334,009 submitted by Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI), for field engineering services provided to the Navy without contractual coverage. For the reasons given below, the Navy may pay the claims, limited to the amount it determines to be the reasonable value of the benefit to the government. The record shows that TI had a series of contracts with the Naval Air Systems Command for equipment to be installed in the P-3 Orion aircraft. These contracts were normally followed with contracts to provide field engineering support for the installation of the equipment at the aircraft manufacturer's plant. The latter contracts contained line items for support for specific pieces of equipment. TI asserts that because negotiations for the support services contracts frequently extended into the contract year, a pattern was established whereby TI provided continuing services while the contract was still being definitized and before orders were actually issued for specific line items. TI states that it continued to provide the services in the expectation that orders for these services would be forthcoming, based on advice from the Navy that the services were needed and requisitions were in k - - - F x- r-

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