P.R. Contractors, Inc. v. United States

OPINION

WILLIAMS, Judge.

Plaintiff, P.R. Contractors, Inc. (PR), seeks to recover additional costs totaling $865,156 *623that it claims to have incurred under its contract with the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) for a levee enlargement in Louisiana (the Contract). Plaintiffs claim includes five components: 1) labor wage rate variances, 2) increased trucking costs, 3) material shrinkage, 4) quantity under-run and 5) additional fill due to settlement.

Plaintiff failed to prove that during negotiations the Corps agreed to compensate it for any increased labor or trucking costs it might incur above…