KBR Inc. said the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals affirmed the government contractor's use of private security contractors during combat operations in Iraq, clearing the way for KBR to recover $45 million for services rendered in 2003 to 2007. The company, which performs engineering, construction and defense--said the decision also affirms the appropriateness of […]
Kellogg, Brown and Root Services, Inc., Houston, Texas, is being awarded a $56,563,357 modification under a previously awarded firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N62470-13-D-3008) to exercise option year one for base operation support services at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti. The work to be performed provides for public safety (security operations, emergency management, and fire/emergency services), air operations, ordnance, […]
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) just released a top-level analysis of State Department reconstruction funding in Afghanistan. SIGAR found that State has obligated nearly $4 billion for Afghanistan reconstruction between the beginning of fiscal year 2002 and March 2013, more than two-thirds of which ($2.8 billion, or 69 percent) will go to […]
Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc., Houston, Texas, is being awarded a $22,142,994 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for base operating support services at Isa Air Base, Bahrain and its outlying support sites including the Patriot Battery Site at Riffa, Bahrain. The work to be performed provides for all management, supervision, labor, materials, and equipment necessary to […]
Recently, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that a company’s work product created during an internal mandatory disclosure investigation was not protected by the attorney-client privilege or attorney work-product doctrines. During discovery in United States ex. rel. Barko v. Halliburton Co. et al., KBR sought to withhold internal investigation reports relating […]