Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. v. United States

FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

A development and construction contract required the government to reimburse the contractor for 80 percent of its cost of performing the contract. The contract’s termination-for-the-convenience-of-the-government clause (“termination clause”) required the government upon such termination to pay the contractor “[a]ll costs reimbursable” under the contract. See 48 C.F.R. § 52.249-6(g); Jacobs Eng’g Group, Inc. v. United States, 63 Fed.Cl. 451, 455 (2005) (trial court decision). The question is whether, when the government so terminated the contract, it was required…