MDA previews recompete of advisory, assistance services contracts

The Missile Defense Agency has given small businesses a new look at its plan to recompete a major advisory and assistance services contract vehicle through an incremental approach.

MDA Agile Professional Services Solution will be the successor to TEAMS-Next, a leg of the agency’s family of similar administrative and acquisition support contracts collectively called TEAMS.

What is now called MAPSS will essentially be the fourth iteration of TEAMS-NEXT. MDA wants feedback on the recompete plan by 5:30 p.m. Eastern time on Oct. 4, the agency said in a batch of Sept. 17 notices.

MAPSS will have 29 individual contracts across six defined tranches: IT and cyber, engineering, intelligence, logistics, operations, and advisory services.

The requests for information are based on each of those tranches.

Here is one key still-undecided aspect of MAPSS worth watching: whether or not MDA will lean on the government-wide OASIS+ professional services vehicle.

MDA has previously said it is “evaluating the potential use” of OASIS+, for which the General Services Administration chose apparent winners across its multiple small business batches in July and August. Future updates on MAPSS should provide more detail on the direction MDA wants to go in.

The agency is determined to roll out MAPSS across four tranches through its incremental approach, which is intended to ensure decisions align with requirements that in some cases will not begin until federal fiscal year 2019.

In planning for each tranche, MDA will conduct market research to inform how it structures requirements and any small business set-aside aspects for them.