United States Ex Rel. Laird v. Lockheed Martin Engineering & Science Services Co.

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

In this qui tarn action challenging Lockheed’s performance of a government contract, the plaintiff, James Mayfield, appeals from the district court’s grant of Lockheed Martin’s motion for summary judgment. We affirm.

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In 1993 Lockheed bid on an Evaluation, Testing, and Analysis contract, a research- and-development project of NASA. The research contract followed on the heels of an Engineering Support Contract, for which Lockheed had been the dominant contractor since 1987. 1

Lockheed’s bid for the research contract responded to NASA’s Request for Proposal,…