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Federal Contractor Misconduct Database (FCMD)
The federal government routinely awards contracts to companies with
histories of misconduct, including
…
contract fraud and other
violations. POGO believes that providing this website will help to
improve contracting decisions and increase public knowledge of how
the government spends billions of taxpayer dollars each year.
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Manatee County v. URS Corporation (Lake Manatee Cofferdam Project)
In January 2015, a Florida jury awarded Manatee County, Florida, $2.17 million in damages in a lawsuit accusing URS Corporation of negligence in designing a cofferdam to keep the Lake Manatee Dam’s spillway dry during repair work. The jury found URS 65 percent responsible for the cofferdam’s failure and another company not a party to the lawsuit 35 percent responsible (the final amount was correspondingly adjusted to $1.4 million). Manatee County claimed that URS committed professional malpractice by failing to perform an adequate analysis of the lake soil into which the cofferdam’s base was installed.
- Misconduct Type
- Poor Contract Performance
- Enforcement Agency
- State/Local
- Contracting Party
- State/Local
- Court Type
- Civil
- Disposition
- Judgment Against Defendant
- Date of Complaint
- 4/11/2012