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September 11, 2012 By AMK

Contract law gives U.S. government options for automatic cuts

A little-known aspect of U.S. contract law may provide a road map for how the Obama administration can implement billions of dollars of automatic budget cuts due to take effect in January without having to pay massive change fees to its contractors.

U.S. courts have found that the government has certain contractual rights because of its sovereign standing, including the right to unilaterally change the terms of its contracts, delay or stop work on contracts or terminate them outright, a congressional report found.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/29/us-pentagon-budget-cuts-idUSBRE87S1DX20120829.

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: breach of contract, budget cuts, cost reduction, deficit reduction, DoD, sequestration, termination

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