Contractor Entitled to Recover Cost Overruns Where It was Misled by a Solicitation and Contract Plans Prepared By Inexperienced and Cognitively Impaired Agency Employees; COFC No. 13-859C, Magnus Pacific Corp. v. United States

Contractor prevails in its suit to recover cost overruns for a levee restoration project where agency employees assigned to the project had little levee experience, the agency engineer who designed the levee lacked experience and was cognitively impaired, and the solicitation and levee plans these agency employees created were deeply flawed, confusing, and contained inaccurate information as to the amount of work and materials required.