The United States v. Amdahl Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• emphasizing that the “goal [of a quantum meruit action against the government] was to protect innocent contractors” (emphasis added)
• noting that quantum valebant and quantum meruit remedies apply to benefits received by the government prior to a contract's rescission for invalidity
• explaining that the GSBCA’s award of costs and attorney’s fees to successful bid protestor Amdahl remained intact even though the contract was void
• stating that the goods provider “is entitled to recover on a quantum valebant basis for the reasonable value in the market place of the use that respondent has so far made of the equipment” (underlining added)
• In Amdahl the illegality in the contract was seen as undercutting the authority delegated to the agency
• under quantum meruit, the contractor’s recovery is limited to “the value of the benefits to the government”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).