Matter of Dart Mech. Corp. v New York City Off. of Admin. Trials & Hearings Contract Dispute Resolution Bd.

Matter of Dart Mech. Corp. v New York City Off. of Admin. Trials & Hearings Contr. Dispute Resolution Bd. 2008 NY Slip Op 09645 [57 AD3d 263] December 9, 2008 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, February 11, 2009

In the Matter of Dart Mechanical Corp., Appellant,
v
New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings Contract Dispute Resolution Board et al., Respondents.

—[*1] Tunstead & Schechter, Jericho (Marvin Schechter and Frank P. Ribaudo of counsel), for appellant.

Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York (Alan Beckoff of counsel), for respondents.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Marcy L. Kahn, J.), entered October 29, 2007, which denied petitioner's application to annul the determination of respondent New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings Contract Dispute Resolution Board rejecting petitioner's claims for additional compensation for the increased cost of supplying certain equipment required by petitioner's contract with respondent New York City Department of Sanitation, and dismissed the petition, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The petition was properly dismissed where the contract did not include an escalator clause or other provision for additional compensation, and the Board rationally found (see Secco Elec. Corp. v Kalikow, 13 AD3d 252 [2004], lv denied 5 NY3d 702 [2005]) that the Department of Sanitation did not breach either the contract provision or the Procurement Policy Board's rules regarding procurement and substitution of sole source items. Concur—Tom, J.P., Gonzalez, Nardelli, Moskowitz and Renwick, JJ.