Railroad Waterproofing Corp. v. United States

JONES, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff seeks to recover additional expenses incurred in executing a Government contract. The increased costs resulted, it alleges, from errors in the Government’s specifications.

The contract was for cleaning and resealing joints on the runways, taxiways, parking stems, and hardstanding areas at Andrews Field, Maryland. The specifications described three types of joints with the total amount of lineal footage of each type, as follows:

Traverse Expansion Joints .... 27,600

Normal Expansion Joints.....127,100

Construction, Contraction and Dummy Joints........ 788,600

One of the…