Tyler Construction Group v. United States

FRIEDMAN, Circuit Judge.

The principal issue is whether the United States Army Corps of Engineers (“the Corps”) was authorized to use so-called Indefinite Deliver/Indefinite Quantity Contracts (known as “IDIQ contracts”) for the design and construction of military buildings (barracks and related structures) in an eight-state area in the southeastern United States. As the name implies, those contracts did not state the number of such structures to be built or the dates for construction, but did specify the total dollar range the construction would involve. The Court of Federal Claims held that…