3170
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22042 (Zip Code)
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Item 8.01 Other Events.
CSRA Inc. (“CSRA” or the “Company”) announces that an appeal of a decision issued on September 15, 2017 by the State of Maryland ("State") Department of Health ("Department") will be brought before
the Maryland State Board of Contract Appeals ("MSBCA"). The decision relates to claims by Computer Sciences Corporation (“CSC”), and a State counterclaim, arising out of CSC’s work from 2012 through 2014 on the Maryland Medicaid Enterprise Restructuring Project ("MERP"). Pursuant to a 2015 agreement between CSRA and CSC, CSRA is litigating the MERP matters on behalf of CSC and will indemnify CSC for the costs of litigation and other costs or liabilities CSC may incur in the litigation. Recovery by CSC will be credited to CSRA.
CSC made three claims against the State, totaling approximately $83 million. CSC claims, among other things, that the State caused the breakdown of the MERP project and that the State's actions collectively constituted a cardinal change to the
contract. In its counterclaim, the State initially sought $30 million plus unspecified additional damages. The Department denied CSC’s claims, and now purports to award $521 million to the State for its counterclaim–an award that CSRA views as absurd and highly speculative.
CSRA views the decision as nothing more than the Department’s unproven allegations and, in the appeal, the MSBCA will treat it as such. The MSBCA will consider CSC's claims and the State’s counterclaim anew; the Department will have the burden of proving the allegations in its decision before this independent tribunal, just as CSC must prove its case. We look forward to presenting the case to the MSBCA, and we intend to pursue these claims vigorously.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
