D-STAR Engineering Corporation

Material Facts

• The Department of the Air Force awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to D-STAR Engineering Corporation on July 16, 2012.
• The contract required the appellant to build a fuel-to-power generation system for an unmanned air vehicle.
• The government terminated the contract for convenience on November 1, 2013.
• D-STAR Engineering Corporation submitted several termination settlement proposals, with the final proposal requesting a net payment of $442,783.01.
• The Defense Contract Audit Agency questioned $925,624 in claimed costs and settlement expenses in its audit report.
• The contracting officer issued a debt determination letter asserting that the appellant was indebted to the government in the amount of $482,841 for overpayments.
• The contracting officer later reduced the amount of indebtedness to $326,583 in a final decision issued in March 2019.
• D-STAR Engineering Corporation appealed the final decision to the Board in May 2019, which was docketed as ASBCA No. 62075.
• In January 2021, the appellant appealed another final decision to the Board, which was docketed as ASBCA No. 62780 and consolidated with ASBCA No. 62075.

Parties

Appellant

D-STAR Engineering Corporation

Respondent Agency

Department of the Air Force

Contracting Agency

Defense Contract Management Agency

Contract Number

FA8650-12-C-7243