Blake Construction Company, Inc. v. The United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Contracting parties may freely choose to have work performed in a specified manner ... even if [it] was not the usual mode.”
• “It is the obligations imposed by the specification which determine the extent to which it is ‘performance’ or ‘design,’ not the other way around
• “An interpretation which gives reasonable meaning to all parts of a contract is preferred to one which renders part of it insignificant or useless.”
• “An interpretation which gives reasonable meaning to all parts of a contract is preferred to one which renders part of it insignificant or useless.”
• “Performance specifications ‘set forth an objective or standard to be achieved, and the successful bidder is expected to exercise his ingenuity in achieving that objective or standard of performance ....’” (citation omitted)
• considering whether contractor had discretion to deviate from specifications

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).