Army MAPS Reopened: What Amendment 0011 Changes
The Army has reopened MAPS to small business teams, with proposals due November 12, 2026. Who can bid, why the award count did not move, the self-score rules, and where to verify it all 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.
What Amendment 0011 changes
In August, GAO sustained a protest against the original solicitation's teaming ban. The Army had allowed small business joint ventures but barred small business prime/subcontractor teams, and GAO held that the choice between those two structures belongs to the offeror, not the agency. Amendment 0011 is the Army's corrective action, and it is narrow.
Three weeks, run in parallel
There isn't time to find a teammate first and write second. A partner only helps if their qualifying projects raise your score without adding a screening or compliance risk, so the workstreams have to overlap.
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 with Amendment 0011 now out, the 0010-to-0011 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 are MAPS proposals due now?
Original proposals were due 22 June 2026. Under Amendment 0011, small business teams have until November 12, 2026 to submit. That date applies only to Small Business Teaming Arrangements, not to anyone revising a standalone bid.
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. Amendment 0011 did not add small business awards: it is still 125 across the five domains.
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.
What does Amendment 0011 change?
It opens a narrow window for small business prime/subcontractor teams, following a GAO protest decision in August. Small businesses that bid standalone can withdraw and resubmit as a team. Large Businesses, small business joint ventures, and small businesses staying standalone cannot revise. Compare 0011 against 0010 before reusing anything from your June submission.
Last updated: October 21, 2026. Scoring figures are taken from the conformed MAPS RFP, solicitation W15P7T26RA0060010, Amendment 0010. Reopening details reflect Amendment 0011. This page will be revised as ACC-APG announces awards.