Deal v. N.C. State University

How courts have described this case

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• holding that our Court has jurisdiction to consider a request for more damages than certified before the contracting officer
• holding that no superior knowledge claim is stated “where the knowledge of both the government and the bidder is based on data equally available to both parties”
• stating that legal effect of bidding schedules not nullified automatically by the presence of a Variations in Estimated Quantities clause in the contract.
• holding government must possess special knowledge that is vital to contract performance, and that is unknown and not reasonably available to the bidder who is thereby misled
• finding jurisdiction over a claim when “the factual basis of the claim before this court is identical to the claim which was certified to the contracting officer”
• both suggesting that a claim is defined by the set of operative facts underlying it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).