MAPSS InitialComms

Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Agile Professional Services Solutions (MAPSS)

Responsible Organization:
Consolidated Support Program Office (MDA/CS)
Ms. Laura Mabe
Procuring Contracting Officer

Ms. Krystle Wright
Acquisition Lead

Organizational Inbox: [email protected]

Approved for Public Release
23-MDA-11658 (18 Dec 23)

What is MAPSS?
MAPSS will be MDA’s fourth generation procurement for Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) support. Specifically, MAPSS is the follow-on professional services program to Technical, Engineering, Advisory, and Management Support (TEAMS) Next (2020-2029, est); the previous instantiations of A&AS support programs for the Agency include Missile Defense Agency Engineering and Support Services (MiDAESS) (20092016) and TEAMS (2015-2024). MAPSS Goals and Objectives
It is MDA’s intent to retain and acquire top-tier talent to support the Missile Defense System (MDS) and mission objectives within budget while balancing the need for mission flexibility and costs. Additionally, MAPSS will further refine contract structure and requirements alignment based on lessons learned from TEAMS Next while also streamlining and simplifying source selections to expedite contract awards. MAPSS Notional / Pre-Decisional Implementation Strategy TEAMS Next consolidated the 32 TEAMS contracts to 18. While this strategy created execution efficiencies and reduced the number of source selections required, MDA is aware that it also reduced opportunities for small business to be the prime on a contract. The consolidation of contracts also made it difficult for companies to demonstrate past performance across the entirety of requirements for certain contracts. In addition, the reduced number and large value contracts led to an increase in the number of Joint Venture arrangements because a single company could not fully meet the mandated requirements per the contract, driving a need to pool companies’ resources (manpower/tools). All of these factors have created a complex acquisition and contracting environment with a significant number of challenges.
Early market research, evaluation of TEAMS Next lessons learned, and an increased emphasis on Category Management Principles has led MDA to consider the use of Bestin-Class (BIC) Contracts. BIC, Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) approaches will enable the Agency to significantly streamline its evaluation processes through the use of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 16 authorities.