By Ross Wilkers,
Senior Staff Reporter

The future Marketplace for the Acquisition of Professional Services contract is being designed to bring staff augmentation and technology support from industry into one procurement

The Army will move ahead with its plan to bring together the recompetes for two of its major go-to contract vehicles for professional and IT-centric services.

Known as MAPS, the future Marketplace for the Acquisition of Professional Services contract is poised to become the Army’s primary vehicle for acquiring staff augmentation and technology support from industry.

Army leaders are working to schedule an industry day to discuss its plans for MAPS before the current federal fiscal year ends on Sept. 30, the branch said in a Monday update.

MAPS is the new name for what the Army previously called ACCESS back in April, when the service branch first unveiled its plan to bundle requirements from the current Responsive Strategic Services Sourcing and Information Technology Enterprise Solution-3 Services vehicles.

Approximately $10 billion in combined obligations have flowed through RS3 and ITES-3S since the former was awarded in the 2017-to-2019 timeframe and the latter was opened for business in 2018. Both vehicles’ ceilings add up to $49.4 billion with RS3’s at $37.4 billion and ITES-3S’ at $12 billion.

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