DCSA MPP Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
DCSA’s FY26 Mentor-Protégé Program seeks to strengthen the Defense Industrial Base by incentivizing large prime contractors to provide developmental assistance to eligible small-business Protégés in DCSA mission areas. The opportunity uses a two-phase process: Phase I white papers are evaluated first, and selected offerors may be invited to submit a Phase II final proposal; awards will be administered as reimbursable subawards under the DOW OSBP MPP-I Cooperative Agreement managed by Move America, Inc. Protégé eligibility includes small businesses meeting SBA size standards and certain socioeconomic, nontraditional, or national-security criteria, while Mentors must be DOW prime contractors with at least $25M in DOW contracts in the last fiscal year, have an active DOW subcontracting plan, and be approved by DOW OSBP; SAM.gov registration is mandatory. Technical priorities include IT modernization/NBIS/cloud, data integration and AI, cyber and industrial security, and digital workforce/governance, with allowable developmental assistance covering areas such as technical/engineering, business development, FCL/personnel security, cybersecurity compliance, DCAA-compliant accounting, FOCI, and IT enhancement. The program accepts only reimbursable agreements, has a total period of performance capped at 3 years/36 months typically structured as a 12-month base plus two optional 12-month periods, and an optional Protégé Pilot Initiative allows projects up to 25% of the annual reimbursable agreement budget.