http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts Latest articles for: Government Contracts Copyright 2012 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:21:17 +0000 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/312208 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/312208 The Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday revived a whistleblowers' False Claims Act suit alleging Medco Health Solutions Inc. subsidiaries hid $69 million in Medicare and Medicaid overpayments, finding the relators' complaint should have survived a motion to dismiss. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:37:06 +0000 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/312040 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/312040 Some federal agencies are proposing to impose a 2 percent tax on certain foreign procurements to fulfill the requirements of a law funding health care for 9/11 first responders, according to information published in the Federal Register on Wednesday. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:36:46 +0000 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/312217 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/312217 An Illinois federal judge sentenced the wife of a former U.S. Army National Guard major to probation and home detention Wednesday for concealing cash that her husband, previously sentenced to five years in prison, received through a government contracts bribery scheme in Afghanistan. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:29:21 +0000 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/312218 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/312218 The Public Warehousing Co. asked a Georgia federal court Tuesday to dismiss criminal charges that it overbilled the U.S. on a multibillion-dollar defense contract, accusing prosecutors of misconduct including pressuring officials to change their positive evaluations of the Kuwaiti contractor. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:33:48 +0000 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/311722 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/311722 Carolina Casualty Insurance Co. sued biopharmaceutical company Omeros Corp. on Tuesday, seeking to avoid covering claims from an underlying False Claims Act action brought by the company's former chief financial officer concerning allegedly fraudulent National Institute of Health grants. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:13:41 +0000 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/311454 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/311454 The U.S. Department of Defense may have spent $1.2 billion over the past five years on overlapping information technology purchases, the U.S. Government Accountability Office reported Friday. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:27:46 +0000 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/311721 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/311721 Dental center manager Church Street Health Management LLC told a Tennessee federal judge Tuesday that it would seek to sell its assets to a stalking horse bidder, one day after fallout from Medicaid fraud claims forced the company into bankruptcy. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:47:49 +0000 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/311537 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/311537 The Federal Circuit on Tuesday rejected the government's challenge to $4.9 million of the $89 million in damages awarded to Pacific Gas & Electric Co. in a contract dispute stemming from the U.S. government's failure to remove spent nuclear fuel. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:22:31 +0000 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/311408 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/311408 A South Carolina contractor embroiled in a contract dispute with the U.S. Coast Guard over the construction of a repair shop on Monday asked a federal judge to sanction the government after thousands of pages of evidence were allegedly destroyed. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:41:59 +0000 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/311433 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/311433 Home medical equipment supplier Rotech Healthcare Inc. on Friday protested the terms of a U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs home oxygen contract solicitation, alleging its parameters create an unfair contract award system. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:35:05 +0000 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/311479 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/311479 The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to review the Ninth Circuit's ruling in favor of The Boeing Co. and other government contractors in a lawsuit bought by the families of soldiers killed in a 2007 helicopter crash in Afghanistan. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:57:46 +0000 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/311286 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/311286 A New York federal judge on Friday refused to dismiss a suit alleging Huron Consulting Group Inc. and Empire HealthChoice Assurance Inc. overbilled Medicare and Medicaid by $50 million while running St. Vincent Catholic Medical Centers into the ground. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:34:18 +0000 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/311102 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/311102 Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems Inc. on Monday challenged the U.S. Navy’s award to Northrop Grumman Corp. of a computer system contract that could be worth up to $638 million. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:21:12 +0000 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/311110 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/311110 The U.S. Government Accountability Office has denied Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.'s protest of a $277.7 million contract to privatize electricity delivery in Aberdeen, Md., saying in a decision published Friday that the government acted reasonably when rejecting BGE's higher-priced bid. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:31:03 +0000 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/311106 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/311106 The U.S. Government Accountability Office released a decision Friday denying General Dynamics Information Technology Inc.'s protest of the National Archives and Records Administration's award of a $244 million task order to IBM Corp. for electronic archiving services, finding the agency's evaluation was reasonable. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:38:47 +0000 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/310862 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/310862 The Fifth Circuit reversed the dismissal of a wrongful death suit against contractor Arkel International LLC., ruling Thursday that the company could be sued under Iraqi law for the death of a National Guard sergeant who was electrocuted at a U.S. military base in Iraq. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:03:57 +0000 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/310758 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/310758 A Virginia federal judge on Tuesday refused to impose proposed civil penalties of up to $100 million on a Belgian transport company that a jury said rigged bids for U.S. Department of Defense contracts, ruling the penalties would be unconstitutionally excessive. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:40:51 +0000 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/310744 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/310744 The Federal Aviation Administration needs to improve its acquisition procedures so as to prevent delays and cost overruns as it maintains its current radar-based air traffic control system and develops a new satellite-based system, according to a Thursday report. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:38:24 +0000 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/310625 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/310625 An alleged gangster charged in the largest Medicare fraud case ever prosecuted has been sentenced in New York federal court to 37 months in prison following a guilty plea to a count of racketeering conspiracy, according to court documents filed Thursday. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:20:08 +0000 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/310684 http://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/310684 An Alabama federal jury on Monday convicted the operator of a hemophilia care company and three other individuals for their alleged roles in a $29 million kickback scheme in which Medicaid was billed for unnecessary hemophilia medication.