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Contractor Unable to Shift Blame for it Problems with a Subcontractor on to Agency; Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure, Inc. v. Department of the Interior, CBCA 5168, 6298
ASBCA Dismisses Appeal Based on Apparent Fraudulent Claim; Appeal of Kamran Zaland Supplies and Services, ASBCA 61339
Decontextualized Emails Not “Damning” Enough for CBCA to Impose Discovery Sanctions on Agency; SBC Archway Helena, LLC v. General Services Administration, CBCA 5997, 6464
Termination for Cause Warranted Where Contractor Made False Statement to the Government; Philip Emiabata, DBA Philema Brothers v. United States, Fed. Cir. 2019-1041
Claimant’s Failure to File Complaint on Time Does Not Warrant Dismissal For Failure to Prosecute; BES Design/Build, LLC v. Department of Veterans Affairs, CBCA 6561
Postal Service’s Hard Bargaining Did Not Constitute Age Discrimination; Patrick M. Murray v. United States Postal Service, PSBCA Nos. 6635, 6640
Subcontractor Successfully Pleads that It’s a Third Party Beneficiary of Prime’s Contract with Government; Constructora Guzman, S.A. v. United States, COFC No. 19-498C
Federal Circuit Endorses Substance Over Form, Allows Contractor to Offset Disallowed Benefits Costs with an Amendment to its Benefits Plan; Secretary of Defense v. Northrop Grumman Corporation, Fed. Cir. Nos. 2018-1945, 2018-1990
Lack of Available Pilots Shoots Down Claim for Unpaid Transportation Services; ASBCA No. 59708, Appeal of AAR Airlift Group Inc.
Contractor’s Attempt to Negotiate Claim Does Not Toll Statute of Limitations; Pegasus Enterprises, LP v. General Services Administration, CBCA 5420, 5733
Government Only Liable for Property Taxes Contemplated by the Parties When They Executed Lease; NOAA Maryland, LLC v. General Services Administration, CBCA 5269, 5659
Federal Circuit Affirms that Surety, Which Executed Takeover Agreement with the Government, Lacks Standing to Assert Claims that Arose Before the Takeover Agreement; Guarantee Company of North America, USA v. Ikhana, LLC, Fed. Cir. 2018-1394
Appellant Wins Appeal but Nets Only Half the Recovery COFD Originally Awarded; ASBCA No. 60608, Appeal of BES Construction LLC
ASBCA Has Jurisdiction to Hear Claims Arising out of Contracts U.S. Government Benefitted From But Did Not Pay For; Appeal of Sungwoo E&C Co., Ltd., ASBCA 61144, 61219
Digital Signature Created with Contractor’s PDF Software Satisfies CDA’s Claim Certification Requirements; Appeal of URS Federal Services, Inc., ASBCA No. 61443
Federal Circuit Affirms that Lobbyists’ Salaries are Not Recoverable Costs; Raytheon Company v. Secretary of Defense, Fed. Cir. No. 2018-2371
Contract to Remove a Tree Once Owned by Teddy Roosevelt Did Not Give Contractor a Property Right in the Tree; Looks Great Services, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 19-937C
COFC Lacks Jurisdiction Over Contract and Takings Claims that were Effectively Challenges to FCC Orders; Sandwich Isles Communications, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 19-149
Subgrantee of Federal Disaster Relief Agreement is Neither Party to Nor Beneficiary of a Government Contract; Columbus Regional Hospital v. United States, COFC No. 18-1299C
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