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09Jul

Don’t Be Unreasonable: Equitable Adjustment Conditioned on Government Contractor’s Proof of Reasonable Interpretation of Contract

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers v. John C. Grimberg Co., Inc., recently reversed an Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA) decision that a federal contractor was entitled to an equitable adjustment on a differing site conditions claim. The Federal Circuit held that the contractor, in developing its proposal, did not demonstrate that its interpretation of government subsurface data was reasonable — a condition precedent to entitlement...
By: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Source Url: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/don-t-be-unreasonable-equitable-21684/

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