APEX Accelerator-Option Period for Existing Award Recipients
Open Posted
- Opportunity number
- DOW2027APEXACCELERATORCLOSED
- Agency
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Department of Defense
- Applications due
- Award size
- $60,000 to $1,500,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement
- Category
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- Business and Commerce
- Eligible applicants
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- City/Township Governments
- Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- State Governments
- County Governments
- 501(c)(3) Nonprofits
- Special District Governments
- Higher Education Inst. (Public)
- Points of contact
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- Monica Wideman monica.k.wideman.civ@army.mil (520) 669-8831
- Full announcement
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Department of War (Department of Defense) is soliciting applications from existing APEX Accelerator award holders for cost-sharing cooperative agreements to maintain procurement technical assistance centers, with applications due by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on July 4, 2027, or 118 calendar days before each applicant's FY26 period of performance end date, whichever applies first. This is a closed announcement: only current APEX Accelerator awardees from Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground may apply. Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground issues the awards on behalf of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Sustainment, Office of Small Business Programs.
Eligible applicants are states, local governments, nonprofit organizations, tribal organizations, and Indian-owned economic enterprises. The federal share is capped at 65 percent of total program costs unless the applicant serves a distressed area, in which case the cap is 85 percent, and applicants must provide matching funds. The DoW expects to award approximately 88 cost-sharing cooperative agreements, with federal funding limitations of $450,000 to $1,500,000 per year depending on service area coverage (statewide, less than statewide, or Bureau of Indian Affairs single or multiple service areas). Each award runs three years: a 12-month base period and two 12-month option periods. Awards are expected between December 7, 2026, and September 30, 2027.
Applicants are evaluated on past performance (most important), technical approach, and cost. To be eligible for award, applicants must receive "Substantial Confidence" or "Neutral Confidence" on past performance and "Excellent" or "Fair" on technical approach. Applicants with no program management changes receive an automatic "Excellent" technical rating and skip oral presentations. Applicants with changes to the program manager or management approach must present via Microsoft Teams.
Recipients must provide free procurement technical assistance through individual counseling, group training, and internet-based resources, and must maintain a full-time Program Manager. Proposals must set numeric targets across seven goals, including Defense Industrial Base sustainment, small business certifications, Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence compliance, cybersecurity under FAR 52.204-21, innovation program connections, and supply chain strengthening through Defense Production Act Title III and IBAS activities. Assistance Listing 12.002 falls under the Procurement Technical Assistance For Business Firms program.
Synopsis
This funding opportunity is for existing APEX Accelerators to maintain an APEX Accelerator to serve as a resource for large and small businesses, including newly started businesses, to obtain procurement technical assistance. The FY27 performance and financial reporting templates will be distributed at a later date.
Eligibility
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