JEFFERSON CONSTRUCTION CORP. v. COMMONWEALTH


386 Mass. 142 (1982)

434 N.E.2d 1023

JEFFERSON CONSTRUCTION CORP. vs. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 5, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip M. Cronin (Roger D. Matthews with him) for the plaintiff.

Richard E. Rafferty, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


O'CONNOR, J.

In the spring of 1980, Jefferson Construction Corp. (Jefferson) was the second lowest bidder for the general contract work for the "Campus House" at the Wrentham State School. After disqualifying the lowest bidder, the Commonwealth, through the director of the bureau of building construction, found Jefferson not "responsible" within the meaning of G.L.c. 149, § 44A, as then amended through St. 1967, c. 899, and awarded the contract to the third lowest...

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