Brand-Name Justification for Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract

This document is a Brand-Name Justification submitted by the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Office of Acquisition Management, to support a sole-source award of Synology DiskStation and associated components under the NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) V IDIQ contract. The justification addresses ICE's requirement for a high-performance Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution to support the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Cyber Crimes Center (C3) Computer Forensics Unit (CFU). The contract is firm-fixed-price, and the award is classified as a new action under the mandatory strategic sourcing vehicle. The specific brand-name products required are Synology 3.5 SATA HDD HAT5300 12TB, Synology 12-bay DiskStation DS3622xs+ (Diskless), 16GB DDR4 RAM Module with ECC, and shipping and handling. Market research was conducted from February through May 2026 to evaluate alternative NAS solutions from three competing vendors.

The justification establishes that the Synology DiskStation products are essential to meeting HSI CFU's operational requirements for secure forensic evidence storage, large-scale case management, concurrent multi-user access, and forensic integrity in controlled training and field deployment environments. The market research concluded that alternative products from competing vendors lack critical capabilities including the required combination of storage capacity, system stability, data integrity, network performance, security features, and evidence management functionality. The contracting officer determined that anticipated pricing will be fair and reasonable based on adequate price competition within SEWP V, where vendors have been pre-vetted and pricing is continuously monitored. The justification and supporting documentation will be provided to all SEWP V IDIQ contract awardees in the Small Business category per RFO FAR 16.507-7(c)(1)(ii), and HSI C3 will conduct future market surveys to identify comparable products for subsequent acquisitions.