Legal Opinion
Short Bros. PLC v. United States
United States Court of Federal Claims
Decided June 10, 2005No. 98-894CPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CHRISTINE O.C. MILLER, Judge.
This case involves the acquisition for the U.S. Army National Guard of a commercial aircraft converted to a military aircraft, the C-2BB +, under a sole-source fixed-price contract. The finished product is quite the success; the C-23B+ is in service today, and some of the military aircraft are with our nation’s servicemembers in Iraq. The success did not come without cost. Defendant agreed to pay approximately $150 million for twenty-eight aircraft. Plaintiff sued in the United States Court of Federal Claims to recover cost overruns that, as of trial,…
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