Colon Rodriguez, Lymarie v. a Metropolitana De Autobuses

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• holding that “[o]nce a claim is in litigation,” the contracting officer has no authority to render decision
• holding that amount specified by contracting officer in demand letter was mere proposal which had not yet been rejected by contractor
• holding that this court had “jurisdiction to address the contractor’s independent challenge to the default termination” even though the contractor did not submit such a claim to the CO before asserting it in this court
• holding government letter to contractor seeking repayment of progress payments did not assert a government claim, in part because amount specified was not yet in dispute
• holding government letter to contractor seeking repayment of progress payments did not assert a government claim, in part because amount specified was not yet in dispute
• holding that once a claim is “the subject of litiga- tion,” any action by a contracting officer on a later-submit- ted claim is a “nullity” and cannot establish jurisdiction over the claim in the Court of Federal Claims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).