Stuyvesant Dredging Company v. The United States

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that design specifications permit no deviations, whenever performance specifications afford contractor discretion to determine how results shall be achieved
• noting that “[government estimates are not warranties,” and finding that a contract “provision setfting] forth the ‘total estimated quantity of material necessary to be removed from the prescribed [area]’ ... do[es] not rise even to the level of [an] estimate[ ].”
• noting that “government estimates are not warranties,” and finding that a contract “provision set[ting] forth the ‘total estimated quantity of material necessary to be removed from the prescribed prism’ ... do[es] not rise even to the level of estimate[ ]. ”
• considering claim that \specifications were defective\ in addition to differing-site-conditions claim
• performance specifications “leave it to the contractor to determine how to achieve [the results to be obtained]”
• “Detailed design specifications contain an implied warranty that if they are followed, an acceptable result will be produced.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).