Id. HH 13, 15; Def.'s First Mot. 2. 10 . Once the government receives notice of the assignment, the government has a duty to make payments directly to the assignee for work performed by the assignor. Thomas Funding, 15 Cl.Ct. at 502. As noted above, the government acknowledged receipt of the Assignment between Lemhi and Travelers. Am. Compl. Ex. C. Any failure on the part of the government to make payments to the assignee allows the assignee (Travelers in the instant case) to file suit against the government in the Court of Federal Claims under the Assignment of Claims Act. T ty could maintain an action against the government to recover an allegedly improper progress payment after the surety notified the government of the contractor’s default); Transamerica Ins., 31 Fed.Cl. at 536 (<HOLDING>); Westech, 20 Cl.Ct. at 750-51 (confirming that
holding that doctrine of impossibility of performance did not apply so as to entitle surety to partial remission of forfeited bond recognizing that the gjovernment as obligee owes no equitable duty to a surety  unless the surety notifies the government that the principal has defaulted under the bond  notice by the surety is essential before any governmental duty exists holding that there is no privity of contract between the government and a surety since the government is not a party to the agreement between the surety and the contractor the government never undertakes an obligation to the surety holding that taxable costs included only the premium on a surety bond posted on appeal not the fees paid for letters of credit to secure the bond where the state statute and court rule only specifically allowed for premium on any surety bond holding that a performance bond surety was allowed to sue the government based on the doctrine of equitable subrogation