Opinion ID: 781023
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Electrical Overages

Text: 55 Fortune also claims the Fortune-Arkin letter agreement gives Fortune a right to payment from National Fire for the electrical overages Fortune paid on the West Brickell project. However, the West Brickell performance bond cannot be construed to cover an agreement that was not identified in the West Brickell Subcontract. 22 The West Brickell performance bond specifically incorporated the West Brickell Subcontract by reference. The list of Contract Documents identified in the West Brickell Subcontract, which sets forth the documents that are part of the bonded subcontract, does not include the letter agreement. The subcontract made no other reference to the letter agreement, even though the parties made several other handwritten alterations to the subcontract. Merger and integration provisions in both the Contract Documents section and in Article 17 of the subcontract provide that the referenced documents are the entire and complete agreement of the parties. Since the bond was issued on the subcontract without reference to the letter agreement, the letter agreement is not within the scope of contract work that National Fire agreed to insure when it issued the bond. Further, the district court properly rejected Fortune's offer of parol evidence that the letter agreement was part of the subcontract because Fortune produced no evidence that National Fire knew of the letter agreement at the time it issued the bond. Therefore, Fortune has no right to payment for electrical overages from National Fire and the district court properly granted summary judgment in favor of National Fire on this issue.