Volume 68
Public Law 83–356
To permit review of decisions of Government contracting officers involving questions of fact arising under Government contracts in cases other than those in which fraud is alleged, and for other purposes.
Approved May 11, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To permit review of decisions of Government contracting officers involving questions of fact arising under Government contracts in cases other than those in which fraud is alleged, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That no provision of any contract entered into by the United States, relating to the finality or conclusiveness of any decision of the head of any department or agency or his duly authorized representative or board in a dispute involving a question arising under such contract, shall be pleaded in any suit now filed or to be filed as limiting judicial review of any such decision to cases where fraud by such official or his said representative or board is alleged: Provided, however, That any such decision shall be final and conclusive unless the same is fradulent or capricious or arbitrary or so grossly erroneous as necessarily to imply bad faith, or is not supported by substantial evidence.
Sec. 2.
No Government contract shall contain a provision making final on a question of law the decision of any administrative official, representative, or board.
Approved May 11, 1954.