The U.S. Justice Dept. and consultant Tetra Tech are ramping up a battle over alleged false claims for payment the firm submitted to the U.S. Navy under $261 million in contracts for radiological tests and cleanup at San Francisco’s former Hunters Point base, a Superfund site being developed for up to 12,000 residential units.
In an April 29 response to a Tetra Tech motion to have a federal court dismiss the government’s breach-of-contract lawsuit, DOJ says the firm’s alleged conduct—that it knowingly prepared and submitted false test results—“strikes at the very heart of its bargain with the Navy.”