GRANTED: January 7, 2026
CBCA 8532
GAM3 CONSTRUCTION LLC,
Appellant,
v.
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY,
Respondent.
The case caption as the decision prints it. Every word is kept; the rule the Board draws around it is not text, so it is not repeated here.
Frank J. Romero, Owner of GAM3 Construction LLC, Tucson, AZ, appearing for Appellant.
Raul Chiriboga, Office of Chief Counsel, Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC; and Kimberly L. Cohen, Office of Chief Counsel, Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security, Indianapolis, IN, counsel for Respondent.
Before Board Judges RUSSELL, KULLBERG, and NEWSOM.
RUSSELL, Board Judge.
On July 31, 2025, appellant, GAM3 Construction LLC, appealed the denial of its requested settlement amount ($1,561,291.69) related to the termination for convenience of its contract with respondent Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security. On January 6, 2026, the parties filed a joint stipulation and motion for a consent judgment in appellant’s favor in the amount of $1,561,291.69, the full amount in dispute in this appeal, with interest to accrue on the judgment starting on July 30, 2025, and running until the date that appellant receives payment. In the parties’ stipulation and motion, they noted that the settlement amount due to appellant was to be paid through the Permanent Indefinite Judgment Fund, fully resolved the dispute between the parties, and included all costs, fees, and interest. The parties further stipulated that they will not seek reconsideration of or relief from, and will not appeal, the Board’s decision awarding the stipulated amount. See Rule 25(b) (48 CFR 6101.25(b) (2024)).
Decision
The appeal is GRANTED. Respondent shall pay to appellant $1,561,291.69 in full settlement of this appeal, with interest under the Contract Disputes Act, 41 U.S.C. § 7109 (2018), accruing from July 30, 2025, until the payment date. Appellant agrees to accept the amount awarded in accordance with this decision in full and final satisfaction of this appeal. Beverly M. Russell
BEVERLY M. RUSSELL
Board Judge
We concur:
H. Chuck Kullberg
Board Judge
Elizabeth W. Newsom
Board Judge
This is a verbatim capture of the text layer of the Board's own document in GAM3 Construction LLC, CBCA 8532. Nothing is summarized or reworded, and the sections run in the order the Board wrote them. What the page shows and the text does not repeat is the pagination furniture: the page numbers and the rules the Board draws around its caption and under its signatures. The signatures are set back into the columns the Board prints them in, each judge under the name he or she signed, and the typed copy of that name the page carries beneath each signature is not repeated.