Solicitation
MAPS RFP Draft 6
Dept of Defense · Dept of the Army · Sol. PANAPG24P0000006913
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Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground plans a 10-year multiple-award IDIQ contract called MAPS, so Army and other federal customers can buy professional services (engineering, research and development, management advice, and IT) worldwide. This post is the near-final Draft 6 of the RFP with scorecards and forms; the official RFP was expected around the end of March or early April 2026. Companies are scored mostly on certifications and past projects, and the real work and money come later through individual task orders.
Watch out for
- Hard pass/fail screening. A company without CMMC Level 2, a SECRET facility clearance, ISO 9001 and a clean CPARS record is dropped before any scoring, which rules out many small firms.
If you have answered NO to any of the above questions, your proposal will not be evaluated any further.
- Only the top 25 small businesses per domain advance. Small businesses are ranked by points and only the top 25 in each domain reach the final responsibility check, so a thin past performance record will likely not make the cut.
top 30 Large Businesses (15 reserved for Emerging Large Businesses), top 25 Small
- Draft only, not the final RFP. Terms, scoring and dates may still change before the official RFP is released, and the listed 2028 deadline is not a real due date.
With this post, we are happy to provide our final draft of the MAPS RFP
- Heavy past performance proof. Each Qualifying Project needs the contract copy, the PWS and a customer-certified form with vacancy rate, time-to-fill and subcontract percentage data, which takes real effort to gather.
Offeror shall provide a copy of the Contract/Agreement with this QP.
- Subcontracting lowers your score. Past projects where subcontractors did over 65% of the work earn no passthrough points, so teaming-heavy track records score poorly.
Offerors will receive zero (0) points per QP if the Subcontractor performed
- No work guaranteed by winning a spot. The base contract price is a token amount and revenue only comes from task orders you must then compete for.
no less than $50 and no more than $100
- Worldwide and warzone work possible. Task orders may require work overseas, in hostile areas, or around the clock, with extra security, training and deployment rules.
Government or contractor sites within CONUS and/or OCONUS locations, including warzone
- Points penalty for joint ventures. Small businesses get extra points only if they are not proposing as a joint venture, which makes teaming up less attractive.
Offeror will receive 2,000 points for not proposing as a Joint Venture
Read from the notice and 10 attachments.
- MAPS Request For Proposal (RFP) Draft 6 - 27MAR2026.pdf
- Summary of Changes to Draft 6.pdf
- Attachment 0001 Cover Letter - 27 MAR2026.pdf
- Attachment 0002 Scorecard Large Business 27MAR2026.pdf
- Attachment 0002 Scorecard Small Business 27MAR2026.pdf
- Attachment 0002 Scorecard Emerging Large 27MAR2026.pdf
- Attachment 0002 Scorecard Commercial Sector 27MAR2026.pdf
- Attachment 0003 Qualifying Project 27MAR2026.pdf
- Appendix A - 27MAR2026.pdf
- Attachment 0004 Past Performance Questionnaire (PPQ) Form - 27MAR2026.pdf
Full brief
What they want
- Win a spot on the MAPS multiple-award IDIQ in one or more of five service domains
- Engineering, Logistics and Operational Services (NAICS 541330)
- Management and Advisory Services (NAICS 541611)
- Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Services (NAICS 541715)
- Emerging IT Services (NAICS 541512) and Foundational IT Services (NAICS 541519)
- Later perform task orders that set the specific work, place, security and pricing
- Submit a scored proposal package: cover letter, scorecard, up to 3 Qualifying Projects per domain, and past performance questionnaires if needed
- Contract type
- Multiple-award IDIQ; task orders may be fixed price, time-and-materials, cost reimbursement, or a hybrid
- Period of performance
- Up to 10 years of ordering: 5-year base ordering period plus one 5-year optional ordering period
- Place of performance
- Set in each task order: Government or contractor sites in the U.S. and overseas, including warzone areas. SAM.gov lists Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.
- Contract vehicle
- New MAPS vehicle formed by combining the ACC-APG RS3 and the PL Digital Market ITES-3S IDIQ contract vehicles
- How they'll choose
- Point-based scoring. Offerors self-score a scorecard (up to 130,000 points) and the Government verifies it. Points come from certifications and past projects. Price is only checked for being fair and reasonable. The top-ranked offerors in each domain then get a responsibility check before award.
- Offers due
- 2028-12-31T17:00:00-05:00 in the SAM.gov response deadline field. This is likely a placeholder because the post is a draft; the final RFP and real due date were not provided.
- How to submit
- Army CHESS proposal portal (chess.army.mil/proposal). Only one person per company may register, plus one alternate for emergencies.
What they'll judge offers on
- Systems and Certifications (M.4), such as accounting system, Top Secret facility clearance, CMMC Level 2, ISO/IEC 27001
- Past Performance (M.5): recency, relevance, NAICS alignment, performance quality, dollar value, passthrough rate, vacancy rate, time to fill
- Price (M.6): total firm-fixed price must be between $50 and $100 to be fair and reasonable
- Small business subcontracting plan (M.7), large businesses only
- Final gate (M.8): responsibility determination for the top-ranked offerors in each domain
What to include when you submit
- Submit a full package every time; only the last submitted package is evaluated
- Name files using the conventions in RFP Section L.1 (not included in the text provided)
- Volume I Cover Letter (Attachment 0001): company CAGE and UEI, domains proposed, business size per domain, joint venture or mentor-protege details, any organizational conflict of interest
- Scorecard (Attachment 0002) for your size category: Large, Emerging Large, Small, or Commercial-Sector
- Up to 3 Qualifying Projects (Attachment 0003) per domain, each with a copy of the contract and PWS and certified by the customer contact
- Past Performance Questionnaire (Attachment 0004) only if a project has no CPARS rating
- Volume V cost submission: a firm-fixed price entered on the cover letter
- Joint ventures must include their written agreement; mentor-protege offerors must include verification of the SBA-signed agreement
You must have
- Must be a small business to use the Small Business scorecard, and provide a small business certification
Offerors shall provide Small Business Certification.
- CMMC Final Level 2 (self) or higher certification, shown with a screenshot of the SPRS certificate (a screening question; a NO means no further evaluation)
Offerors shall provide documentation of a CMMC Final Level 2 (self) or higher CMMC Certification.
- Active SECRET facility clearance (screening question)
Offerors shall submit supporting documentation to show that your company has a Secret Clearance.
- Current ISO 9001:2015 or ISO 9001:2013 certification from an approved certification body (screening question)
Offerors shall provide verification of a current ISO 9001:2015 or ISO 9001:2013 Certification.
- Clean CPARS record: small businesses are excluded if 5 or more CPARS element ratings in the last 3 years are Marginal or below (large businesses: 5% or more)
For Small Businesses, if five (5) or more of the element ratings are MARGINAL or below the Offeror is excluded from evaluations.
- Qualifying Projects need at least 1 year of performance and be no more than 4 years old; contract value must exceed $2.5M to earn dollar-value points
For Large, Emerging Large or Small Businesses QP shall have at least one (1) year of
- Personnel clearances as each task order requires, held at the time of proposal submission
Contractor personnel performing work under this contract shall have the appropriate security
- IT and cybersecurity staff must hold DoD 8140 baseline certifications at award, and all staff need DoD cybersecurity awareness and AT/OPSEC training
Cybersecurity/IT functions shall be appropriately certified upon contract award.
Current contractor
None named. MAPS combines two existing Army IDIQ vehicles, RS3 and ITES-3S.
Not in the notice text
- The real proposal due date and whether the final RFP has been released
- Total contract ceiling or any dollar value for the whole vehicle
- RFP Sections G through M.4 were left out of the text provided, including the basis for award, number of awards, contract administration and joint venture rules
- Section L proposal instructions: page limits, volume structure and the file naming conventions
- Section B pricing is listed as to be determined
- What the actual task orders will pay and where the work will be
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Key facts
- Response due
- Dec 31, 2028, 10:00 PM UTC
- Posted
- Mar 30, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Solicitation
- PANAPG24P0000006913
- Agency
- Dept of Defense · Dept of the Army
- Office
- W6QK ACC-Apg
- Set-aside
- No Set aside used
- NAICS
- 541330
- Product/service code
- R425
- Business type
- Engineering, architecture & research
- Place of performance
- Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, 21005
- Contracting contact
- ACC-APG Email Boxusarmy.apg.acc.mbx.acc-apg-maps-contracting-office@army.mil
- Versions
- 2 (amended since first posted)
What similar contracts paid
660 contracts at this agency under the same NAICS code, in the same state, had activity in the last 5 years, according to USAspending.gov. Small businesses won 21% of the dollars in this market over the last 3 fiscal years.
Typical contract$1.2MMiddle half: $253K to $3.9M
Typical per year$326KValue divided by years of performance
Before you respond
Full notice text from SAM.gov
The Government would like to thank industry for its valuable feedback and participation in the survey and prior draft iterations. This input has helped us shape and strengthen the MAPS acquisition. With this post, we are happy to provide our final draft of the MAPS RFP and summary of changes in anticipation of the official RFP release. Our schedule for this release remains on track for the end of March/ beginning of April 2026.
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