Army gets moving again on bundled recompete of professional services, IT vehicles

Following nine months of deliberations, the Army is moving ahead with its plan to conduct a bundled recompete that brings together requirements from two major professional and IT-centric contract vehicles.

Industry should pencil in Jan. 28 as the date for when the Army will conduct a walk-through of its blueprint for the Marketplace for the Acquisition of Professional Services contract.

Companies can send two representatives for in-person attendance, the Army said in a Friday Sam.gov notice to open registration. Virtual participation is also an option.

The Army is setting up MAPS to be its primary mechanism for acquiring staff augmentation and technology support from industry, requirements currently covered by the Responsive Strategic Services Sourcing and Information Technology Enterprise Solution-3 Services vehicles.

Approximately $13.9 billion in task order obligations have flowed through RS3 and ITES-3S since the former opened for activity in 2017 and the latter in 2018, according to GovTribe data.

MAPS is almost certainly going to have a multibillion-dollar ceiling, given those sizes and specs. The contract will have an initial five-year base period and a single option to extend for five more years.

When the Army paused MAPS activity in March, the service branch said it needed to review whether or not the contract was impacted by President Trump’s “Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement” executive order.

MAPS was one of three contracts the Army halted pre-solicitation activity on in light of that order. The service branch cancelled a $10 billion New Modern Software Development contract vehicle in its entirety, while the Army Data Platform 2.0 effort remains officially on hold.