S.O.G. of Arkansas v. United States

This contract case, before us under the Wunderlich Act, 41 U.S.C. §§ 321-22, arose from plaintiff S.O.G. of Arkansas’ agreement to construct Lock and Dam No. 4 on the Arkansas Liver. The project, one unit of a system of seventeen locks and dams, was designed to help provide a navigable channel from the Mississippi Liver to Catoosa, Oklahoma. S.O.G., a joint venture formed to obtain and perform the contract, responded to a Corps of Engineers’ invitation for bid (IFB) issued in October 1974. The Government’s bid documents included a schematic diagram of cofferdams to be constructed of steel…