Sand Point Can Claim Animus Caused Army Corps Order Termination

Sand Point Services LLC can continue to allege the US Army Corps of Engineers partially terminated a $33 million barracks renovation services task order because of animus toward the contractor.

The contractor sufficiently alleged that the agency’s failure to follow proper procedure under the Federal Acquisition Regulation shows that the termination was pretextual, Judge Eleni M. Roumel of the US Court of Federal Claims said in a Tuesday opinion partially denying the government’s motion to dismiss.

Sand Point’s complaint also described a plausible non-pretextual basis for the termination, the court said, but it didn’t include so many additional or contradictory ...