Afghanistan Medical Equipment Contractor Owed Servicing Costs

An Afghanistan-based medical equipment contractor for the US State Department is owed $7,620 plus interest for work performed under a contract prior to the Taliban takeover in August 2021, the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals said Wednesday.

SAL Logistics showed it incurred costs under the contract to replace an x-ray tube and to perform updates on a broken mobile x-ray machine at the US embassy for which it wasn’t compensated, Board Judge Kathleen J. O’Rourke said.

SAL submitted multiple reports supporting its claim for dozens of hours of work downloading and installing software onto a laptop in an effort to ...