Service No. 04 · New License Procurement·Engagement Success fee · Fixed fee
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New Oracle licenses, on terms you wrote.

Counter offer build, list price benchmark, discount negotiation, contract structure review. Buyer side counsel from intake to signature. Success fee or fixed fee.

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38%
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What we actually do.

Buyer side
Never a reseller

You are about to buy new Oracle licenses. Maybe it is database options to support a new application, a fresh wave of Fusion Cloud subscriptions, a Java SE Universal commitment, or an OCI universal credits agreement. Oracle has a quote ready, or is about to send one. Our job is to make sure the number on that quote is not the number you sign.

We sit on your side of the table from intake to signature. We build the counter offer from market benchmarks, current Oracle discount ranges and known deal desk behavior. We brief your procurement lead before every call with Oracle, and we run real time analysis as Oracle responds. We never sell licenses ourselves and we never take referral fees from Oracle, so the only number we care about is yours.

The engagement runs in four phases. Discovery and intake. Counter offer build. Negotiation alongside your team. Signature and true up. Most new license deals close in 8 to 14 weeks from kickoff. If Oracle has set an end of quarter deadline, we work to that deadline while pushing back on the artificial pressure that comes with it.

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Four phases. One signature.

Typical length
8 to 14 weeks
i.
Intake and scoping.
Thirty minute call to map the product list, deployment plan, budget envelope, timeline, internal decision makers and any existing Oracle relationships that constrain the deal.
ii.
Counter offer build.
List price benchmark, current discount range for the product mix, contract structure review, and a written counter offer ready for your procurement team to issue.
iii.
Negotiation support.
We brief your lead before every Oracle call. We track concessions in real time. We push back on artificial deadlines. We rerun the math after each Oracle response.
iv.
Signature and true up.
Final contract review line by line. Schedule terms checked. Co term and renewal positioning written into the contract. Savings calculated against the agreed baseline.
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Common pitfalls we prevent.

Seen across
500+ deals
§ Pitfall 01
Buying the wrong metric.
Oracle metrics are not interchangeable. Named user plus, processor, application user, employee, hosted environment. Each carries a different cost trajectory and a different audit exposure. We rerun the math on each option before you commit.
§ Pitfall 02
Agreeing to a price hold on the wrong list.
Oracle price holds are written against list price. List goes up. The hold only locks the discount. We negotiate price holds against actual paid price and against a fixed renewal cap.
§ Pitfall 03
Future commitment pressure.
Oracle often asks for a multi year commitment in exchange for a higher discount today. We model the total cost of ownership across the term so you see the real trade rather than the headline discount.
§ Pitfall 04
Schedule creep.
The schedule list grows during negotiation. Modules appear that you did not ask for. We comb every line before signature and challenge anything that does not match the original scope.
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Where to read more.

Linked
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§ New license intake

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If Oracle has a quote on the table, send it. We will tell you within a week what is movable and how much. If we are not the right counsel for the deal we will say so on the call.

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