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Iraq
September 27, 2004 Government
Executive
The Government Accountability Office has denied a protest from American
security services firm DynCorp International LLC of the Army's controversial
award of a $293 million contract in March to British firm Aegis Defense
Services Ltd. to coordinate and manage the activities of security contractors
operating in Iraq. DynCorp, a heavyweight in the global security services market,
also had bid on the contract. The firm is owned by Computer Sciences Corp. of
El Segundo, Calif. The award to Aegis surprised many because the company had
no experience in the Middle East, and its main shareholder, Tim Spicer, a
former lieutenant colonel in the Scots Guards, has been at the center of a
number of controversial business deals, including a 1998 arms-smuggling
operation in Sierra Leone in violation of a United Nations arms embargo.
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