Brand Name Justification for award 140D0425F1025

The Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center is procuring specialized hardware equipment for the Bureau of Trust Funds Administration's American Indian Records Repository Digital Center for Excellence program. The procurement includes five Fujitsu FI-7700 Document Scanners, one Bookeye 5 v1 book scanner, VersaScan map scanners, and multiple secure media destruction devices from SEM, all of which are required to be from the National Security Agency's Evaluated Products Lists. This firm-fixed-price acquisition will be conducted through NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) V using a Lowest Price Technically Acceptable evaluation approach. The equipment is intended to support secure disposition of electronic media, meet trust litigation requirements, and ensure proper identification, documentation, and destruction of records. The solicitation has an extremely tight timeline with both the posting date and due date occurring on October 15, 2025, indicating this is likely a brand name justification document rather than an active solicitation for proposals.

This procurement is designated as a Total Small Business set-aside, though the contracting officer noted they are not aware of any Indian-owned Small Business Economic Enterprise companies capable of completing the requirement, necessitating a Buy Indian Act Deviation. Market research conducted via a Request for Information on NASA SEWP confirmed that small businesses can provide the required services and equipment. The contract includes a 60-calendar day performance period for delivery and installation of the specialized scanning and media destruction equipment. No specific contract value is mentioned in the available documentation, though the procurement involves multiple pieces of high-end specialized equipment including document scanners, book scanners, map scanners, and secure media destruction devices. The equipment will be used to support the digitization and secure handling of American Indian records and documents as part of the Department of the Interior's trust responsibility obligations.