A motion to dismiss appeals for failure to state a sum certain was denied by the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, notwithstanding the overlap between the underlying claims, because each claim sought a specific dollar amount. The government moved to dismiss four claims arising from denials of requests for equitable adjustment under a contact for logistic modernization program services. In a fifth claim, the contractor had included a credit for payments received from the government, but it did not allocate the payments among the four other claims. To justify the denial of the four claims, the contracting officer stated he could not calculate the portion of the credit attributable to each of the four claims and therefore could not subtract the amounts paid from the amounts claimed to calculate the "sum certain" claimed by the contractor.
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