Army MAPS: What the Final RFP Actually Requires
Solicitation W15P7T26RA0060010, read end to end. The award math, the pass/fail screening questions, the self-score rules, and where to verify all of it yourself.
MAPS (Marketplace for the Acquisition of Professional Services) is the Army's consolidation of two of its largest services vehicles, RS3 and ITES-3S, into one multiple award IDIQ. Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground runs it in support of the Capability Program Executive for Enterprise Software and Service. The contract covers uncommon knowledge-based professional services and IT services worldwide, CONUS and OCONUS including hostile areas, for Army customers, DoW agencies, and other federal agencies. Ceiling: $50B. Ordering period: five base years plus one five-year option. Task orders can be firm fixed price, time-and-materials, or cost reimbursement, or a hybrid.
How MAPS got here
Rows in purple are the ones that still govern. For anything newer, check official sources.
The five domains
Awards, screening, and scoring all happen per domain. Offerors may propose to more than one, and the cover letter, qualifying projects, and subcontracting plan can be reused, but the Volume II Scorecard has to be unique to each domain proposed.
A qualifying project does not have to match the domain it is submitted under, but matching the domain-specific NAICS code is worth 1,000 points per project, up to 3,000.
How the award math works
Highest rated technical offeror per domain, no cost/technical tradeoff. The Government evaluates only as many proposals as it takes to fill the top 70 verified scores, so proposals below that rolling cut line may never be read.
Section 01 screening questions, by business type
Pass/fail. Answer "no" to any applicable question, or fail to substantiate it, and the proposal is not evaluated further. All certifications must be valid at time of proposal.
Where the points are
Points shown are from Section M of the conformed RFP. Passthrough rate, vacancy rate, time-to-fill, schedule, and completeness are scored inside each qualifying project form and each needs its own substantiating documentation.
Where to find official information
MAPS has moved fast and reversed direction more than once. Go to primary sources rather than secondhand summaries.
How VisibleThread helps on a self-scored vehicle
Self-scoring changes what proposal work actually is. Nobody wins MAPS on prose. You win it by claiming every point you can defend, and by being able to prove each claim from documents an evaluator will accept, because verification only ever moves your score down.
VisibleThread shreds a 257-page conformed RFP into a structured requirements matrix in minutes, flags every obligation and every place supporting documentation is demanded, and compares amendment to amendment so a superseding document does not quietly invalidate your internal notes. It is deterministic, explainable AI: on a vehicle where the Government verifies everything, you are not trusting a black box for what was actually asked.
MAPS is the immediate case. The broader one is the same whichever vehicle you chase next: compliance tracking, content reuse across bids, readability and quality review, and a proposal workflow that carries you from RFP release to submission.
Who uses VisibleThread for this kind of work
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See it in action: the MAPS conformed RFP, shredded
We ran the conformed MAPS solicitation, W15P7T26RA0060010 Amendment 0010, all 257 pages of it, through VisibleThread's Simple Shred. Start to finish, from opening the document to a fully categorized shred, took minutes.
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What 257 pages of MAPS actually contains, counted rather than skimmed:
That is 1,074 obligation statements a reviewer would otherwise have to catch by eye, on a vehicle where a single unsubstantiated claim can cost you a scored element. And because Amendment 0010 supersedes every prior draft and Q&A, the compare matters as much as the shred.
FAQ
What is Army MAPS?
MAPS, the Marketplace for the Acquisition of Professional Services, is a multiple award IDIQ from Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground. It consolidates RS3 and ITES-3S into a single vehicle for knowledge-based professional services and IT services, with a $50B ceiling and an ordering period of up to 10 years.
When were MAPS proposals due?
No later than 1200 Eastern on 22 June 2026, submitted through the Digital Market Portal. Questions closed 17 April 2026 at 1700 Eastern, and requests for a DoD SAFE code for CUI supporting documentation closed 15 June 2026.
How many awards will the Army make?
70 per domain: 30 Large Businesses, 25 Small Businesses, and 15 Commercial-Sector Vendors. The Government reserves the right to adjust that number up or down without limit, and unfilled Commercial-Sector or Small Business spots can be reallocated to other business types.
What are the five MAPS domains?
Engineering, Logistics and Operational Services (541330); Management and Advisory (541611); RDT&E (541715); Emerging IT (541512); and Foundational IT (541519). Offerors may propose to multiple domains, but only one proposal per legal entity per domain, and the Scorecard must be unique to each domain.
How does the self-scoring actually work?
Offerors self-score the Volume II Scorecard and submit substantiating documents. The Government ranks by self-score, then verifies from the top down. Verification can only lower a score, never raise it, so your self-score is your ceiling. Unverifiable claims can be adjusted down to zero points, and falsified information removes the proposal entirely.
What happens if I miss a screening question?
Section 01 is pass/fail. Answer "no" to any applicable question for your business size, or fail to let the Government verify it, and the proposal is not evaluated further. Certifications have to be valid at the time of proposal and held by the prime, not a teammate.
How many qualifying projects can I submit?
No more than three per domain, up to fifteen Volume III submissions in a full package. A project can be a prime or commercial contract, a task order, a first-tier subcontract, an OTA agreement, or a grant or cooperative agreement. Relevance to the domain's technical capabilities is the single biggest scoring lever at up to 21,000 points.
Does Amendment 0010 replace the earlier drafts and Q&A?
Yes. The amendment states it supersedes and replaces all prior amendments, historical drafts, and Government-provided Q&A, and that its terms take absolute precedence in any conflict. Anything your team wrote against Draft 4 or an earlier Q&A release needs to be re-checked against the conformed RFP.
Last updated: September 10, 2026. Figures on this page are taken from the conformed MAPS RFP, solicitation W15P7T26RA0060010, Amendment 0010. This page will be revised as ACC-APG announces awards.