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- From: d3g349@gilligan.oname (PR Berard)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
- Subject: Are GSA Discounts Really Discounts???
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.162001.17378@oracle.pnl.gov>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 16:20:01 GMT
- Sender: news@oracle.pnl.gov
- Reply-To: d3g349@gilligan.oname
- Organization: Sun Microsystems
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- I'm not sure that this is really the best newsgroup to post this to, but it's
- my best guess.
-
- Here's the situation. While researching existing CASE tools, I stumbled across
- this interesting situation. One of the most reputable vendors on my list is on
- the GSA Schedule and offers their product at a "substantially" reduced price.
- Actually, they offer a 50% discount only on their base product. The discount
- does not apply to any add-on products. I guess that this is not out of the
- ordinary.
-
- The catch is that if we buy their product on at the reduced price, then we
- must by one license for each user. If we buy at the commercial price, we can
- buy one license per seat (which makes much more sense to me and is what we
- really need). Assuming that we had 5 seats and 10 users, it would cost us
- $7,000 more for the product at the "discounted" GSA price.
-
- Has anyone else run across this problem? Are there other marketing schemes
- used by vendors to take advantage of the GSA schedule? Does the government
- realize this?
-
- Thanks for your input,
-
- Peter
-