Quanta Services on Thursday filed a lawsuit in State Supreme Court challenging LIPA’s "unlawful" decision to reject Quanta’s bid to operate the Long Island electric grid and requesting an order barring LIPA from awarding the contract to PSEG Long Island.

The lawsuit is Houston-based Quanta’s latest attempt to challenge LIPA and its board of trustees' decision in April to reject its own internal committee’s "strong" recommendation that Quanta be awarded the contract to operate the grid. Most LIPA board members decided instead to go forward with PSEG, despite the finding that PSEG’s bid "did not satisfy certain minimal requirements," according to LIPA.

The lawsuit throws a potential last-minute wrench into ongoing negotiations between Long Island Power Authority and PSEG for a contract ex

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