Court Opinion

ID: 9454698
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 18:55:06.748033+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:15.145816
License: Public Domain

NICHOLS, Judge
(dissenting):
Respectfully I regret to be unable to agree with the foregoing decision. I do not know whether any purely intra-government document, not communicated to the contractor, can be a notification to the contractor as the contract contemplated. I think that is indeed questionable. But if any writing is such a notification, I think it can only be such if it purports to be such. The writing here relied on purports simply to be advice to other Government officials. The commitment of the Government to reimburse for cost overruns is a serious matter and involves the control of expenditures by Congress and by fiscal officials. I would not knowingly do anything to weaken that control. The amount here involved is small, as Government contract expenditures go, but the principle is large.