United States Ex Rel. CMC Steel Fabricators, Inc. v. Harrop Construction Co.

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

HEAD, District Judge.

Introduction

Harrop Construction Company, Inc. (“Harrop”) served as a contractor to the United States Navy to build two facilities in 1995 at the Naval Air Station in Ingle-side, Texas. These facilities are the Advanced Firefighting Training Facility (“AFT”) and the Fleet Mine Warfare Center (“FMW”). During the same time, Texas A & M University had engaged Harrop as a contractor to construct the Center for Environmental Science Studies on its campus at Corpus Christi, Texas (“TAMU-CC”). In its efforts to construct these facilities,…