Bureau of Federal Supply and Babcock and Wilcox Tube Company, Inc.

The Bureau of Federal Supply requests the Comptroller General's decisions regarding entering into an agreement with Babcock and Wilcox Tube Company, Inc., and Gasoline Products Company, Inc., which would provide for the payment of Babcock and Wilcox Tool Company to Gasoline Products Company the sum of $42,499.66, collected from the Bureau of Federal Supply as a part of the royalty provided for in certain contracts between that Bureau and Babcock and Wilcox Tube Company, and the release, in consideration of such payments, of Babcock and Wilcox Tube Company and the Bureau of Federal Supply from further claim for royalty payments by Gasoline Products Company, which alleges to be the authorized licensor under the patent involved.