OEM buyer guide · procurement

Buy the complete outcome without hiding the commercial boundaries.

Separate software, maps and content, cloud usage, electronics, integration engineering, SaaS, managed operations and specialist data services—then align each line to scope, evidence, lifecycle and one authoritative commercial meter.

Eight building blocks. One transparent schedule.

A program can select one or many forms. Keeping them separate makes rights, volume, acceptance, updates, support and exit testable.

COM-01

Software module license

Per vehicle, module, term, trim and territory for navigation, EV, connected, eHorizon/ADAS, assistant or fleet software.

Contract must define

  • licensed products and capability status
  • fitment, activation and vehicle definition
  • vehicle lines, trims, model years and territories
  • term, renewal and minimum commitment
  • upgrade, backward compatibility and transfer
  • offline, device and cloud usage rights
  • end-of-term, export and transition
  • reporting, audit and reconciliation
21 portfolio products can participate
COM-02

Map and content license

By territory, layer, format, update cadence, deployment and permitted use for embedded or cloud content.

Contract must define

  • territory and content layers
  • format, schema and entitled releases
  • update, freshness and correction cadence
  • storage, cache and offline rights
  • display, attribution and branding
  • derivatives, enrichment and training restrictions
  • test, replay and issue reproduction rights
  • expiry, purge, migration and audit
5 portfolio products can participate
COM-03

Cloud and API usage

By calls, vehicles or assets, MAU, transactions, map loads, environments or committed capacity.

Contract must define

  • billable event and authoritative meter
  • environment, region and tenant
  • included capacity, burst and quota
  • overage, throttling and exhaustion
  • availability, latency and quality SLO
  • usage report, dispute and reconciliation
  • scale, failover and disaster-recovery test
  • retention, export and termination
12 portfolio products can participate
COM-04

Automotive electronics

Per selected device or BOM, with NRE, tooling, test, provisioning, warranty and recurring connectivity/cloud separated.

Contract must define

  • selected variant and controlled BOM
  • forecast, MOQ and order horizon
  • lead time and capacity reservation
  • tooling, fixtures and ownership
  • EVT, DVT, PVT, PPAP and acceptance
  • warranty, RMA and service turnaround
  • alternate, PCN and obsolescence control
  • software, connectivity and cloud attachment
6 portfolio products can participate
COM-05

Integration and NRE

Milestone or work-package engineering across HMI, vehicle, platform, cloud, apps, content, devices and validation.

Contract must define

  • deliverables and acceptance evidence
  • OEM, Mappls and Tier-1 responsibility
  • dependencies, inputs and assumed reuse
  • IP, source, binary and tool rights
  • environments, samples, vehicles and access
  • milestones, reviews and payment gates
  • change request and re-estimation process
  • defect warranty and transition support
33 portfolio products can participate
COM-06

SaaS and PaaS

By tenant, users, assets, enabled features, transactions or committed platform capacity.

Contract must define

  • tenant and environment topology
  • user, role and asset populations
  • enabled modules and configuration
  • identity, data and integration ownership
  • availability, capacity and support
  • retention, backup and export
  • release and deprecation policy
  • termination assistance and portability
11 portfolio products can participate
COM-07

Managed service and support

By coverage hours, service tier, staffing, fleet or device population, release load and operational scope.

Contract must define

  • L1, L2, L3 and supplier boundaries
  • hours, languages and contact paths
  • severity, response, restore and update cadence
  • monitoring, alert and escalation ownership
  • release, incident and problem management
  • monthly evidence and governance review
  • knowledge, runbook and transition obligations
  • surge, disaster and end-of-service support
11 portfolio products can participate
COM-08

Professional and data services

Project, corridor, survey, dataset, analysis or outcome work package with accepted source and delivery evidence.

Contract must define

  • scope, geography and source authority
  • survey, travel and fieldwork assumptions
  • method, tools and qualified personnel
  • data format, quality and acceptance
  • refresh, correction and warranty
  • ownership, derivatives and permitted reuse
  • dependencies, permits and customer inputs
  • handover, retention and destruction
4 portfolio products can participate

Eight reviews before signature—and again before change.

The checklist follows the product through supply chain, scope, enablement, lifecycle, security, assurance, data exit and financial mechanics.

BUY-01

Entity, IP and supply chain

  • contracting entity and product owner
  • subcontractor and partner roles
  • map, voice, traffic, charger and hardware license chain
  • background, foreground and third-party IP
  • source, binary, tool, escrow and transition rights
BUY-02

Scope and availability

  • exact feature, status and owner
  • territory, platform, trim and model year
  • standard, configured, new-development and roadmap separation
  • partner, hardware, data and connectivity dependency
  • signed capability and entitlement schedule
BUY-03

Development enablement

  • production and non-production environments
  • credential and identity lifecycle
  • test quotas, samples and synthetic fixtures
  • tooling, diagnostics, replay and issue intake
  • engineering support and escalation
BUY-04

Service and lifecycle

  • performance, availability and quality definitions
  • remedy and service-credit mechanics
  • maintenance and release calendar
  • deprecation, compatibility and model-year support
  • long-term support, migration and end-of-life
BUY-05

Cybersecurity and privacy

  • vehicle, device, cloud and app responsibility
  • identity, keys, secure boot and OTA
  • purpose, consent, minimization and retention
  • residency, subprocessors, audit and support access
  • vulnerability, incident, deletion and decommissioning
BUY-06

Quality, safety and compliance

  • item and standards applicability
  • ASPICE, safety and cybersecurity evidence allocation
  • laboratory, homologation and approval plan
  • IATF, APQP, PPAP and manufacturing evidence
  • field, warranty, deviation and audit process
BUY-07

Data rights and exit

  • OEM, driver, vehicle and partner input rights
  • derived, aggregated and analytic data rights
  • model-training and improvement permissions
  • export format, timing and continuity
  • deletion, certificate, transition and post-term limits
BUY-08

Financial mechanics

  • volume and activation definition
  • minimum, overage and true-up
  • currency, tax and price revision
  • engineering change and cancellation
  • forecast, MOQ, obsolescence and service credits

Thirteen workstreams turn intent into comparable scope.

Each topic becomes named assumptions, decisions, gaps and owners—not an unstructured feature list.

DISC-01

Business and launch

vehicle lines and trims · markets and territories · SOP and model years · volumes and adoption · target customer outcomes · mandatory, differentiating and subscription-ready features

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DISC-02

Ownership model

data, SDK, app, cloud, device or full program · OEM and Mappls ownership · selected Tier 1s and platform vendors · build-versus-configure choices · IP and source expectations · operations and acceptance authority

COV-03COV-06
DISC-03

Cockpit

OS, SoC and head unit · IVI, cluster, HUD and passenger displays · input, voice and audio · startup and performance budgets · UI, localization and accessibility ownership · moving-state and distraction rules

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DISC-04

Connectivity and offline

embedded modem, tethering and projection · carrier and roaming · offline territories and journeys · data budget and update windows · store-forward and recovery · service-loss customer behavior

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DISC-05

Map and navigation

territory and content depth · route and vehicle profiles · traffic, ETA, search and POI · lanes, junctions, tolls and alerts · private, truck and two-wheeler routing · representative proof routes

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DISC-06

Connected vehicle

TCU, identity and provisioning · vehicle signals and digital twin · remote-service authority · ownership transfer and consent · alerts, diagnostics and applications · support and lifecycle operations

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DISC-07

EV

battery and vehicle signals · model calibration and reserve policy · range and arrival targets · charger sources and compatibility · cluster, cockpit and app behavior · reservation, payment and fleet analytics

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DISC-08

ADAS and HD

functions, item and ODD · corridors and content coverage · HD/eHorizon format and consumers · localization, sensors and controllers · safety allocation and degradation · simulation, replay and validation evidence

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DISC-09

Shared and fleet

vehicle, driver and rider identities · orders, dispatch and optimization · customer ETA and route adherence · video, workforce and proof · partner and enterprise integrations · operations KPIs and support

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DISC-10

Cloud and data

region, tenancy and deployment · identity and entitlement · consent, residency and retention · analytics and partner feeds · backup, export and disaster recovery · exit and portability

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DISC-11

Security and quality

OEM CSMS and SUMS · threat analysis and trust boundaries · secure boot, OTA and keys · ASPICE, functional safety and SOTIF · IATF, PPAP and homologation · vulnerability and incident management

COV-08
DISC-12

Lifecycle and support

development and test fleets · environments and promotion · map, app, firmware and device releases · field issue and correction process · LTS, warranty and support hours · obsolescence, migration and end-of-life

COV-07
DISC-13

Commercial

license and usage metric · minimums and committed volumes · integration NRE and acceptance · hardware forecast and MOQ · capacity, SLA and remedies · data rights and price protection

COV-06COV-07

Eight connected stages, each with a failure variant.

Evaluation proves a coherent journey and its degraded behavior; it does not silently promote simulation into field acceptance.

01
DEMO-01

Plan

Resolve an ambiguous Indian address, landmark and Mappls PIN; compare suggestions and entrances.

Failure variant

No confident match or entrance remains explicit, evidence-bearing and user-confirmable before route activation.

3 products · 2 interfaces
02
DEMO-02

Continue

Transfer the journey to vehicle and establish one route revision across IVI, cluster and companion.

Failure variant

Disconnected or incompatible surfaces retain last qualified state without divergence.

4 products · 3 interfaces
03
DEMO-03

Optimize

Compare fastest and energy-efficient routes, traffic, tolls, elevation, arrival SoC and reachable area.

Failure variant

Stale traffic or invalid energy signals are excluded, disclosed and cannot silently support a current prediction.

3 products · 3 interfaces
04
DEMO-04

Charge

Add a compatible charging stop and replan after deviation or qualified charger change.

Failure variant

Stale, incompatible or unavailable charger evidence cannot create a physical availability claim.

3 products · 2 interfaces
05
DEMO-05

Drive

Show junction, lane and sign guidance plus route-aware traffic, speed, curve and safety context.

Failure variant

Unknown localization, content or probable path holds unsupported presentation.

4 products · 3 interfaces
06
DEMO-06

Connect

Share trip, evaluate a geofence or status alert and review the post-drive summary.

Failure variant

Consent withdrawal, sequence gaps or offline state remain distinct and auditable.

4 products · 3 interfaces
07
DEMO-07

Operate

Inspect digital twin, versions, route trace, issue workflow, health and analytics.

Failure variant

Observed, calculated, predicted and externally accepted states remain separate.

5 products · 3 interfaces
08
DEMO-08

Predict

Feed the route into eHorizon/HD tooling and inspect attributes, versions, coverage and freshness.

Failure variant

Outside ODD, stale content or invalid localization produces explicit safe degradation.

3 products · 3 interfaces

Six controlled artifacts make the proposal comparable.

These are the minimum bridge from workshop to technical proposal, SOW, commercial schedule and acceptance plan.

ART-01

Capability and entitlement matrix

  • feature and source status
  • territory, platform, vehicle and trim
  • owner and dependency
  • commercial entitlement
  • acceptance and expiry
ART-02

Reference architecture

  • vehicle, device and surface topology
  • cloud, app and data boundaries
  • interfaces and trust zones
  • source authority and degradation
  • versions and ownership
ART-03

Proof and verification plan

  • representative journeys
  • baseline and thresholds
  • vehicles, routes and environments
  • failure and recovery variants
  • evidence and acceptance owners
ART-04

Delivery and lifecycle plan

  • workstreams and milestones
  • dependencies and environments
  • integration and release gates
  • SOP and operations
  • LTS, change and end-of-life
ART-05

Commercial schedule

  • software, content and cloud
  • device, NRE and tooling
  • support and professional services
  • meter, reporting and remedies
  • term, renewal and transition
ART-06

Assurance responsibility matrix

  • privacy and cybersecurity
  • quality and safety
  • regulation and homologation
  • manufacturing and warranty
  • incident, audit and approval
Commercial evidence boundary

A price, schedule, public example or demonstration is not vehicle, laboratory, regulatory, manufacturing, production-operations or OEM acceptance. The accountable program gate still decides.

OEM program workshop

Make your Mappls Auto RFQ measurable from day one.

Bring program, platform, territory, volume and lifecycle assumptions. Leave with comparable scope, evidence, commercial meters and responsibilities.