Brand Name Justification - Rocket Software Licenses

USCIS intends to limit the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contractors solicited to a particular brand name product, or a feature of a product, peculiar to one manufacturer. A brand name item, whether available on one or more schedule contracts, is an item peculiar to one manufacturer. The information and communications technology product (ICT) is defined as a diverse set of technological tools and resources used to communicate, and to create, disseminate, store, and manage information.

The software will be used to connect desktop and mobile users to IBM, UNIX, Linux, OpenVMS, and HP systems to a Windows-based terminal emulator. Secure, manageable, and easy to use, Reflection Desktop continually delivers better ways of doing business. ICT as reported is generally not a software application used by the general nontechnical user. The brand name Rocket Software with be ordered through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP). The software services to be procured include the following listed in the attached Description of Requirement: