Brister & Koester Lumber Corp. v. United States

LITTLETON, Judge.

In 1941 the Government, through the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department, entered into a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with three corporations, acting jointly, for the construction of certain projects at New River, North Carolina, including barracks, utilities, and various other training facilities for the Marine Corps. The estimated cost was approximately. $13,000,-000, and Article 25 of the contract provided that the Government would pay to the prime contractors “the sum of the actual net cost to the Contractors of the materials actually furnished and the services and…