United States Federal Circuit

Contracting officers under the Administrative Dispute Resolution Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-320, Sec. 12, 110 Stat. 3870, 3874-75, generally have wide discretion in making responsibility determinations, but discretion is not absolute, so they must state more than a conclusory basis for their determinations.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/03/2001
• Published 01/04/2001

Judges

• DYK, Circuit Judge., Before NEWMAN, LINN, and DYK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sam Zalman Gdanski, of Suffern, New York, argued for plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Franklin E. White, Jr., Trial Attorney, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for defendant-appellee. With him on the brief were David W. Ogden, Assistant Attorney General; David M. Cohen, Director; and Mark A. Melnick, Assistant Director. Of counsel on the brief was Vicki E. O'Keefe, Attorney, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Department of the Navy, of Washington, DC. Of counsel were Kenneth M. Dintzer, Trial Attorney; Michael Duclos, Trial Attorney; Jeanne E. Davidson, Deputy Director; and Katherine M. Kelly, Trial Attorney, Department of Justice, of Washington, DC.