‘Stale’ DynCorp Salary Info Didn’t Taint Anti-Narcotics Award

AAR Airlift Group Inc.'s access to DynCorp salary information didn’t require its disqualification from a $10 billion contract to provide anti-narcotics flight operations for the State Department, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said in a public opinion Dec. 10.

An AAR employee’s access to certain DynCorp salary information, due to her prior employment with DynCorp, didn’t supply AAR with a competitive advantage, the court said. AAR didn’t use that “limited” and “stale” information when it prepared its final contract proposal, it said in its nonprecedential opinion.

The department’s contracting officer conducted a thorough review of documents ...