Triple Canopy’s Afghanistan Security Contract Claims Reinstated

Triple Canopy Inc. will have another chance to seek from the U.S. government reimbursement of fees Afghanistan imposed on large private security companies operating in the country with foreign nationals, the Federal Circuit ruled Wednesday.

A contract appeals board said the contractor’s claims didn’t satisfy the Contract Disputes Act’s six-year statute of limitations.

But because Triple Canopy’s claims didn’t accrue until July 6, 2011—when the Afghanistan government denied its fees challenge—the contractor’s June 6, 2017, claims submitted to a U.S. contracting officer were timely under the CDA, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in a decision ...