Army MAPS Marketplace for the Acquisition of Professional Services Vehicle is Revealed
9-24-24
The Army has unveiled details on the recompete of its core contract vehicles for professional and IT-related services. On September 19th , the Army posted a sources sought that outlined its vision for the forthcoming Marketplace for the Acquisition of Professional Services (MAPS) contract. Initial information shows that the contract will be divided into five distinct domains. Each domain will be awarded to a limited number of prime contractors. The Army has requested industry responses, questions, comments, and suggestions to be submitted by September 27th .
MAPS is the new moniker for what the Army initially referred to as ACCESS earlier this year when it first announced plans to consolidate the scope of the existing Responsive Strategic Services Sourcing (RS3) and Information Technology Enterprise Solution-3 Services (ITES-3S) vehicles. ACCESS was formerly envisioned as the replacement for RS3, but Army leadership chose to pursue a broader consolidation approach and merge the two.
Combined, these two vehicles represent over $10 billion in task order obligations to date and have a total ceiling of nearly $50 billion. MAPS will most likely reach a larger contract ceiling based on federal spending trends. The RS3 contract, awarded over several phases between 2017 and 2019, is set to be completed in May 2027, while ITES-3S is scheduled to be completed in September 2027.
Currently, 260 companies are participating in the RS3 vehicle, with top awardees including CACI International, Fibertek, Inc., Leidos, Manufacturing Technologies, and Parsons Government Services. ITES-3S currently has 116 prime contractors with top awardees including Agile Defense, Business Mission Edge, General Dynamics, IBM, and SAIC.
The scope of MAPS will include a broad range of services such as IT services, general logistics, medical logistics, engineering, research and development, testing and evaluation, acquisition and strategic planning, and education and training. The proposed five domains are: technical services, research, development, testing, and evaluation services, management and advisory services, high-level IT services, and low-level IT services. Further details are below:
• Technical Services: Engineering Services, Logistics Services, Manufacturing Readiness, Technology Insertion, Integration, and Interoperability
• Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation Services: Basic Research, Applied Research, Experimental/Developmental, Modeling and Simulation, Prototyping and Fabrication Support, and Exploratory Research
• Management and Advisory Services: Acquisition and Strategic Planning, Financial Services, Training Services, Education Services, Program Management, Quality Assurance, and Risk Management
• High-Level IT Services: Intelligent Automation (AI/Robotic Pre-Automation), Infrastructure, Service Platform, and Infrastructure Cloud Services, Component Framework, Big Data and Big Data Analytics Data Services, Quantum Computing, Integration, and Consolidation Information Technology Services, and Cybersecurity Services
• Low-Level IT Services: Help Desk Support, Independent Verification and Validation, IT Education and Training, IT Supply Chain Management, IT Management Services, Business Process Reengineering, Network/Systems Operation and Maintenance, Information Technology Services, Cybersecurity Services, Telecommunications/Systems Operation and Maintenance
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